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To describe:  The other critical innovations of the amniotes

Introduction: Amniotes were true land animals as they did not require water for fertilization. A large amount of yolk provides nutrition to the developing embryo and an extra-embryonic membranes protects the developing embryo from the outside. Amniotes were first to develop their embryo in an artificially created environment similar to the water.

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