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  2. Eggshell - Wikipedia

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    This chicken egg has been soaked in vinegar for a few days and has become translucent and flexible. Anatomy of a chicken egg. The bird egg is a fertilized gamete (or, in the case of some birds, such as chickens, possibly unfertilized) located on the yolk surface and surrounded by albumen, or egg white. The albumen in turn is surrounded by two ...

  3. Chorioallantoic membrane - Wikipedia

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    In this method, the eggs are first kept in inside a humidified incubator for up to a period of 3 days, to ensure that the position of the embryo is opposite to the position where the egg will be subsequently cracked. A small hole is made on the side of the air chamber to equilibrate the pressure, followed by the cracking of the egg on a petri-dish.

  4. Egg - Wikipedia

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    Six commercial chicken eggs — view from the top against a white background. An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

  5. Blastoderm - Wikipedia

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    In chicken eggs, the blastoderm represents a flat disc after embryonic fertilization. [3] At the edge of the blastoderm is the site of active migration by most cells. [4] DNA repair genes are highly expressed in chicken blastoderms. [5]

  6. Yolk - Wikipedia

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    The yolk of a chicken egg Diagram of a fish egg; the yolk is the area which is marked 'C'. Among animals which produce eggs, the yolk (/ ˈ j oʊ k /; also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.

  7. Chorion - Wikipedia

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    In reptiles, birds, and monotremes, the chorion is one of the four extraembryonic membranes that make up the amniotic egg that provide for the nutrients and protection needed for the embryo's survival. It is located inside the albumen, which is the white of the egg. It encloses the embryo and the rest of the embryonic system.

  8. Egg incubation - Wikipedia

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    Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.

  9. File:Anatomy of an amiotic egg.svg - Wikipedia

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    The file "Anatomy_of_an_egg" is corrected : the orientation is good now. It's the correction of the file on commons. Deutsch: Schematischer Längsschnitt eines Hühnereis: 1. Kalkschale 2. Schalenhaut 3. Schalenhaut 4. Chalaza (Hagelschnur)