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Spiral cleavage


In embryonic development at the third cleavage the halves are oblique to the polar axis and typically produce an upper quartet of smaller cells that come to be set between the furrows of the lower quartet. Spiral Cleavage is on of two types of holoblastic or complete cleavage. All groups showing spiral cleavage are protostomia.

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