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Nutrients and oxygen are transferred from a mother to her developing fetus through the?
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a developing fetus receives nourishment from the placenta, which is burrowed into the uterus
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Harmful chemicals or viruses that can be transferred from a mother to her developing fetus are called?
Harmful chemicals or viruses that can be transferred from a mother to her developing fetus are called teratogens.
What process moves nutrients from the mother to developing foetus?
In mammals this is done by the placenta, through which the foetal blood flows and exchanges nutrients/gasses with the mothers blood supply.
The developing embryo receives nutrients and oxygen from the mother's?
blood
How does a foetus get its oxygen?
It comes from a temporary organ called the placenta. The fetus is connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord. From the placenta, which is normally attached to the uterine wall, blood, oxygen, and nutrients are transferred through the umbilical cord to the developing fetus.
How does the foetus get its protein and vitamins?
Through placental nutrition. The placenta, which is attached to the uterine wall on one side and the umbilical cord on the other, gets nutrients from the mother's blood. It is then transferred through the umbilical cord to the fetus.
How alcohol is transferred from mother to fetus?
Through the blood system
How do developing placental young receive nourishment?
Before birth, nutrients in the mother's blood stream flow through the umbilical cord into the fetus's blood stream. After birth, young placental mammals suckle (drink their mother's milk) until they are weaned.
Organ that passes materals between mother and developing embryo'?
The placenta is where the material between mother and child, like nutrients and oxygen, travel from one to another.
What is the function of a umbical cord?
The umbilical cord connects the baby to the placenta which attached to the mothers utuers. It provides oxygen, blood and nutrients to the developing baby via the mother.
How does a developing baby get food and oxygen during the pregnancy?
Baby gets food and oxygen through the umbilical cord. This umbilical cord is attached to the placenta. This placenta is attached to the uterus. In the placenta blood of the mother comes close to the blood of the fetus. There is transfer of food and oxygen to the blood of fetus from the blood of mother. Carbon bi oxide and waste products of metabolism are transferred to the blood of mother from the blood of fetus.
How are nutrients and wastes passed between the mother and baby?
Through the umbilical cord and the placenta.
How do nutrients move from mother to the fetus?
They are transported from the placenta through the umbilical cord to the fetus. The baby takes nutrients and oxygen from the mother's blood, which travel's through the umbilical cord to the baby
