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the umbilical cord
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To which structure does the umbilical cord connect the embryo?
The umbilical cord is attached to the placenta and the placenta is attached to the wall of the uterus
How is the fetus connected to the placenta?
the fetus is the baby and the placenta is how the baby gets nutrients or food while in the womb, there is a tube that connects from the placenta to the fetus bellybutton
How does the addiction of drugs from the mother get to the baby?
Drugs in the mother's bloodstream pass across the membrane of the placenta, and transfer to the unborn baby's blood by the umbilical cord, which connects the baby to the placenta.
Pertaining to the navel?
Contemplating how to answer that. Mammals are born with an umbilical cord that connects the baby indirectly to the circulation of the mother via the placenta. Since the placenta is not needed after birth, neither is the connection from the baby to the placenta. The hole mostly closes up and leaves a navel.
Function of umbilical cord?
It connects the baby's blood supply to the placenta embedded in the mother's womb to enable gas and nutritional exchange.
What is the the function of the umbilical cord?
It connects the baby's blood supply to the placenta embedded in the mother's womb to enable gas and nutritional exchange.
How do placentals young develop?
The young of placental mammals develop within a placenta. The placenta is a thick membrane that is connected to the inside of the uterine wall. The umbilical cord connects the baby to the inside wall of the placenta. Nutrients and oxygen go from the mother's blood stream through the placenta, down the umbilical cord, and into the baby. The baby releases waste products and carbon dioxide, which travel up the umbilical cord, through the placenta and into the mother's blood stream.
Why are baby kittens born with cord around there neck?
Mammals, such as kittens, have a cord that connects them to the placenta. The placenta transfers food and oxygen to the baby while it is growing. That cord, the umbilical cord, goes from the placenta to the navel (or, on a cat, where the navel would be). Sometimes that cord can get wrapped around part of the body during birth.
What forms the belly button?
It is the place where the umbilical cord connects the baby to the placenta. After the baby is born, the umbilical is cut off, eventually heals over and leaves the belly button.
What connects the embryo the placenta?
The umbilical cord.
What connects the embryo to the placenta?
The umbilical cord.
What attatches the placenta to the baby?
The umbilical cord attatches the placenta to the baby's belly.
