Is it an underdeveloped chick? I don’t get it
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No an egg yolk is not an underdeveloped chick. The egg yolk is the ovum, which in humans is the female gamete. But in chickens the gamete is the blastodisc. The blastodisc is a small white cell attached to the yolk, which will turn into a baby chick if fertilized. The yolk will act as a nutrient source, since there is no placenta and the chick is never physically attached to the mother.
Not an underdeveloped chick. Eggs we eat are unfertilized by a male bird and the stuff that we eat are amniotic fluid and other things that are there to facilitate the growth of a chick if the egg had been fertilized. That’s as close as I feel like I can get to the answer
The yolk (vitellus) is the nutrient-rich food for a developing embryo. The egg white (albumen) is there to provide a fluid for an embryo to sort of rest in, so the movement of the egg/bird doesn’t bother it.
Unfertilized eggs (the kind that we eat) do not contain any embryos.
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