"Meroblastic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... WHOLE cell; hence Remak called it TOTAL segmentation, and the ova in question holoblastic, or "whole-cleaving." It is otherwise with the second chief group of ova, which he distinguished from these as meroblastic, or "partially-cleaving ": to this class belong the familiar large eggs of birds and reptiles, and of most fishes. The inert mass of the passive food-yelk is so large in these cases that the protoplasmic contractions of the active yelk cannot effect ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel |
