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it permits the passage of nutrients and oxygen from the mother to the fetus.
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What is the function of placental in mammals?
The placenta is for nourishing the embryo.
Do turtles have placenta?
No. Turtles lay eggs. Only mammals have a placenta.
Why can't humans lay eggs?
Humans are placental mammals, meaning that they develop with the embryo attached to a placenta that allows it to exchange waste and nutrients with the mother. The placenta would not be able to function inside an egg.
Does a squid have a placenta and an umbilical cord?
No, only mammals have a placenta with umbilical chord.
Do dolphions have placenta?
Dolphins are mammals, give live birth, so also have a placenta.
Do tuna have placenta?
No, tuna fish do not have placentas. The placenta is part of mammal physiology, and fish are not mammals.
Do all mammals have placenta?
no they do not. Mammals are divided into three groups; monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals.
What Function of the placenta?
Both of these
Why would a miscarriage occur if the placenta was damaged?
If the placenta don't function the embryo will die.
One characteristic of placental mammals?
The young are nourished in the womb by the placenta.
Is a placental mammal a pouched mammal?
No, pouched mammals do not have placenta.
Where does the embryo get nutrients from?
In mammals through placenta and in reptiles and birds from yolk .
