The Smith County Veteran Services Office will be closed Monday through Monday, August 15-22, 2016. The Smith County Veterans Service Office will be closed Monday through Monday, August 15-22 for training, and will reopen on Tuesday, August 23 for normal business hours.
The Human Placenta: an overview and some highlights Oops. Wrong species. Placenta of Homo sapiens sapiens . The biochemical and physical duet of the mother and the fetus in the formation of the placenta is one of the most carefully orchestrated phenomena in fetal development. It represents the cooperation of two distinct individuals to form a single structure that protects one and enables the genes of the other to live on.
There it implants and starts to grow. From implantation until the end of the eighth week of pregnancy, the baby is called an embryo. From the ninth week of pregnancy until birth, it is called a fetus. What is the placenta? The placenta is formed from some of these rapidly dividing cells. The placenta functions as a life-support system during pregnancy. Oxygen, nutrients, and hormones from the mother are transferred across the placenta to reach the baby, and waste products from the baby are transferred to the mother for removal.