PPT1 Flashcards
The study of developmental events that occur during the prenatal
stage.
The branch of biology concerned with the study of embryos
and their development.
Embryology
all the developmental events that occur during the
existence of a living organism
Ontogeny
it pertains to the evolutionary history or development
of a group of organisms, such as a tribe or a racial group.
Phylogeny
This field of embryology is associated with the morphological description of different embryonic stages in the ontogenetic development of individuals of different species. This involves the initial work of embryologists till 18th century.
Descriptive Embryology
It embraces the comparative study of embryology of different animal groups.
Comparative Embryology
It involves all those studies that
attempt to understand the various fundamental mechanism in the
development of different animals, like fertilization, Cleavage, Gastrulation, Embryonic induction, determination and differentiation.
Experimental Embryology
This branch of embryology includes all those studies which employ various biochemical, biophysical and physiological techniques for understanding embryological events at
molecular level.
Chemical Embryology
It is the branch of embryology concerned with the study
of malformations or birth defects.
Teratology
Substances that cause birth defects
Eg.Phocomalia (poorly developed arms child),
Ectomalia (arm less child)
Tetratogens
History of embryology
a shift from superstitions to observation
Aristotle’s studies
History of embrylogy
-have seen the sperm cells
Hamm and Leeuwenhoek in 1677
History of embryology
– learned about advanced fetuses
but the minute dimensions resisted analysis
Galen
History of embryology
-described ovarian follicle
De Graaf in 1672
sperm contained new individual in
miniature and only nourished in the ovum
Spermists
thought the same and that the seminal fluid only stimulates it
Ovists
discovered eggs of some insects
undergoing parthenogenesis
Bonnet (1745)
– demonstrated that both male and female sex products are necessary for the initiation of development
Spallanzani (1792-1799)
thesis on epigenesis
(embryological development occurs through progressive
growth and differentiation)
Wolff (1733–1794)
discovered mammalian egg, first
emphasized that the more general basic features of any
animal group appear earlier in the development than
do special features of different members of the group–
His’s law (Demonstrated existence of germ layers)
Von Baer (1828)
who formulated the cell theory
Matthias
laid down the foundation of
modern embryology as a science.
Schleiden and Theodore Schwann