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How many cells? edit
as per knowledge morula is 16 celled only and not 4-16
- as per whose knowledge? anyway, now the article says "12-32 cells" and the image below is showing 8-cell embryo. a bit inconsistent, I'm afraid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.163.254.157 (talk) 20:15, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
- now it says "consisting of approximately 100-150 cells", my gods... This may refer to fish (?) embryos, yet the next paragraph (differentiation into trophectoderm and ICM) clearly describes mammalian development. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.163.254.157 (talk) 01:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
Etymologi edit
Is it given that the namesake of 'Morula' is merely from the berry, and not the diminutive plural of 'mora', meaning duration of time, delay? Doesn't this connotation also make sense; at least for poetically inclined people, in regard of that the morula is as much signified by the transformational periode where the totipotent zygote(s) until the production of specialised cells? Or even that it is that the morula are like a pre-existing spheric, membran-like field, already co-existing with the formation of the zygote itself, causing the transformational period of it. That is before it resembles a morula. Isn't it a matter of time? or at least speculated on as such, thus possiblyh inspiring the namesake. (Who named it?). I will make it clear that my curiousity, in this matter, is more on the level of the signifier than on the level of the signified (as that is more to my field of knowledge, not biology). When that is said, it is not so that I would make an argument, claiming my point is more correct; simply that the subject matter (the origin of our existence) is a fascinating study, also from the aptitude of semiotics and etymology. --Xact (talk) 02:47, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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