Chick embryo head showing bone & cartilage

  • Dr Rachel Moore
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Chick embryo head showing bone & cartilage. Dr Rachel Moore. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Head of an embryonic day 16 chick head stained with alcian blue and alizarin red to show cartilage (blue) and bone (red) development. At this stage most of the jaws have differentiated into bone and the skull bones are forming although large areas of the head are still not covered with bone.

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