limb development
Growing arms, legs
Limb development is the biological process by which arms, legs, wings, or fins form in an embryo.
The term appears in developmental biology and genetics, describing how cells differentiate and organize into functional appendages: Researchers studied limb development in fruit flies to understand birth defects.
The process involves complex signaling pathways that determine where limbs grow and how they're structured.
- embryoOrganism before birth
- body planOrganism's fundamental structural arrangement
- budUnopened plant growth
- growthIncrease in size
- growth plateCartilage enabling bone elongation
morphogenesis · differentiation · cartilage · bone · muscle · fetus · regeneration · amputation · salamander · fin · wing · digit · patterning · tissue · stem cell · apical · outgrowth · skeleton
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- developmental biologymorphogenesis, embryogenesis, gastrulation, organogenesis, ectoderm
- Limb Developmentpolydactyly, amelia, webbing, growth plate, bone growth
- organogenesisneurogenesis, angiogenesis, bone formation
- amphibiansfrog, frogs, newt, toad, toads
- Mammal Birthbirth, pregnancy, gestation, labor, fetus