embryology

     

Embryology is the stuy of the development of an embryo. An embryo is defined as any organism in a stage before birth or hatching, or in plants, before germination occurs.

Trivia about embryology

  • This "ology" is concerned with the development of the fertilized egg & the growth of the fetus
  • From the Greek for "growing in", it studies the development of organisms in their earliest stages before birth