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The features of early development that are conserved across all vertebrates.
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Early development of an organism includes three stages of development. These are cleavage, gastrulation, and neurulation. Cleavage begins as soon as the egg is fertilized. It includes the mitotic division of the zygote to produce gastrula. The gastrula undergoes gastrulation that leads to the formation of the germ layers by morphogenetic rearrangements of the cells.
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