A researcher is looking through a microscope at a petri dish full of mouse embryos. these embryos appear as balls with no indentations along their surfaces. these embryos are most likely:

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Jaime Dunlap

2 September, 11:38

A researcher is looking through a microscope at a petri dish full of mouse embryos. these embryos appear as balls with no indentations along their surfaces. these embryos are most likely:

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Yosef Clements · Answer 1

These embryos are most likely in the morula stage. The morula is an early stage in embryo development consisting of 16 cells in a ball shape. The marula resembles a mulberry, and is produced through a series of cleavage divisions starting from the single-celled zygote. After this stage, the embryo will start showing more distinct features with the formation of desmosomes and gap junctions, and eventual formation of organs.