The Illinois state sales tax rate is 6.25%, and the average IL sales tax after local surtaxes is 8.19%. Counties and cities can charge an additional local sales tax of up to 3.5%, for a maximum possible combined sales tax of 9.75%.
(clue: look up Hirschsprung's disease.) The first important step in development of the digestive system occurs during folding of the embryonic disc as neurulation takes place (weeks 4 and 5) - the thin endodermal layer is gathered up' inside the embryonic body to form a tubular structure. Gut tube, respiratory diverticulum, yolk sac, and allantois.
Some of the cells from the placenta develop into an outer layer of membranes (chorion) around the developing blastocyst. Other cells develop into an inner layer of membranes (amnion), which form the amniotic sac. When the sac is formed (by about day 10 to 12), the blastocyst is considered an embryo.