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Indeterminate cleavage

Definition
noun
A type of cleavage on the basis of the potentiality of blastomeres in which the blastomeres (resulting from cleavage) are qualitatively equipotential and each has the ability to develop into a complete embryo when isolated since its developmental fate is not determined in the early embryonic stage. This type of cleavage is characteristic of deuterostomes.
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An embryonic cleavage is said to be indeterminate when it produces cells with a complete set of undisturbed animal or vegetal cytoarchitectural features and when isolated can individually develop into a whole organism.
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Last updated on March 1st, 2021

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