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"How did a chick get inside an egg?" wonders one, as he beholds the miraculous emergence of a chick from an egg. A story inside the shell answers that curiosity by leading you through the various stages of embryological development, culminating into the birth of a chick.
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1) Chick belongs to the class of aves.
2) The considerable development of the embryo in this class is sustained without the supply of nutrients from external sources.
3) Nutrients in the form of yolk are present in the egg.
4) The female bird (Hen) produces the egg, which after mating with male bird (Cock) becomes a fertilized egg. If not, it remains an unfertilized egg.
Let's take an example :
Have you ever thought what exactly are you eating, when you have an egg for breakfast? Is there a chicken in your breakfast egg? The answer is ‘no’. Most of the eggs available in the shops, there is no chicken, and nothing that could grow into a chicken, for the simple reason that the usual breakfast egg is an unfertilized ovum.
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1) The chief aim of this educational programme is to create better understanding and comprehension (visually) of the different stages of embryonic development and their significant characteristics of each stage. 2) Break the 'shell barrier' and get better understanding into this fascinating process as compared to laboratory observations or text-book illustrations/drawings/photographs.
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SUMMARY
Embryonic development is vital to understand the development of any organism including humans. It is a sensitive study of science in biology, starting from a single zygote cell to multicellular with various fascinating complex stages that develop sequentially to a complete form under genetic control. |
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SIGNIFICANCE
The Chicken embryo is a staple educational tool in developmental biology because the availability and similarities with mammalian embryo help shape our understanding of embryology |
REFERENCES
1) An Introduction to Embryology by B. I. Balinsky (2004) 2) Developmental Biology (A text book of Embroyology) 3) Berril, NJ : Developmental biology (Tata-McGraw-Hill) 4) Rao, K.V. : Developmental Biology : A modern synthesis (Oxford - IBH Publishers) 5) Arumugam N.A. text book of embryology (Saras publication) 6) Chick Embryology: Bradley M. Patten |
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www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/virtualfarm/poultry/poultry_development.html
www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/crane/VisualizeEgg.html
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/info/chicken/egg.shtml
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| PRODUCER Ashok Mewada |
E-CONTENT DESIGNER Khushi Vyas |
SUBJECT EXPERT |
| ASSISTANCE IN E-CONTENT Altaf Kotwal Maulik Raval |
CAMERA Maqbool Chavda Kaushik Brahmbhatt |
SCRIPT & EDITING Ashok Mewada Arti Parikh |
| PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Arti Parikh |
VOICE Juned Bukhari |
ANIMATION G. K. Prajapati Dilip Dave |
| TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS Nandini Joshi Archana Patel Smita Bhatt |
TECHNICIANS Mukesh Soni Vishnu Patel Sanjay Master Kirit Dave |
FLOOR Satyavan Seth |
Other Help Bharat, Govindsinh, Ambalal |
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SPECIAL THANKS Malti Mehta Dr. N. J. Chinoy Dashrath Zala Roy George |
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