Importance of the Notochord Embryonic vertebral column
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It defines the premordial axis of the embryo Acts as the embryonic vertebral column and gives the embryo some rigidity. • Induces the overlying ectoderm to differentiate into neuroectoderm, which then forms the neural plate • It induces the formation of the vertebral bodies (Column). However it does not give rise to the vertebral column. • Most of it disappears, but parts persist to form nucleus pulposus of intervertebral disc in the newborn. • #Notochord
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