Yolk At Biology Glossary

What is it? The food store in the eggs of the majority of animals, made up mainly of fat and protein granules. Where yolk is present in the egg, as in chickens, there is meroblastic cleavage, but where it is absent, or nearly so, cleavage is holoblastic, as in Amphioxus.

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