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.
In animals at least as complex as earthworms, the embryo forms a dent on one side, the blastopore, which deepens to become the archenteron, the first phase in the growth of the gut. In deuterostomes, the original dent becomes the anus while the gut eventually tunnels through to make another opening, which forms the mouth.