Date: Fri Sep 1 12:17:27 2000
Posted By: Michael Onken, Admin, MadSci Network
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 967823372.Zo
Message:
All placental mammals have navels, which are simply scars left at the site where
the umbilical cord was attached to the body. While the point is subject to much
debate, there is evidence that several other amniotes hatch from their eggs still
attached to their egg blood vessels through an allantoic stalk homologous to the
umbilical cord. Hence, birds and reptiles may be considered to have "navels" (or
at least something homologous to a navel) as well.
For more on this, check out these previous answers:
Do
elephants have navel?
feline
and canine belly buttons
Re:
Feline/canine bellybuttons
What
exactly flows through the umbilical cord?
When
the umbilical cord enters the foetus, which vein does it enter?
How
does a baby chick know to peck it's way out of an egg?
- Placenta
- A large, vascular structure, through which the embryo gets nutrients and
exchanges gases with the mother's uterus.
- Mammal
- Any of a class of warm-blooded vertebrates with hair and mammary glands.
- Umbilical cord
- The flexible cordlike structure connecting an embryo at the navel with the
placenta and containing two umbilical arteries and one vein that transport
nourishment to the embryo and remove its wastes.
- Amniote
- Any of a group of land vertebrates that develop extensive, vascular membrane
systems outside of the embryo during gestation; includes reptiles, birds, and
mammals.
- Allantois
- A vascular, membranous structure similar to and arising after the yolk sac,
used for waste disposal and gas exchange in amniotic eggs.
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