Friday, August 8, 2014

Amniotic Egg


  • Specimen: Chicken egg
  • Location: Taken at my boyfriend's house, his dad raises chickens and this was in the coop.\
  • Relates to term: Its an egg produced by a bird, the embryo develops in an egg.
  • Definition: Amniotic egg; The type of egg produced by reptiles, birds, and prototherian (egg-laying) mammals (amniotes), in which the embryo develops inside an amnion. The shell of an egg is either calcium-based or leathery. 

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