Synopsis
(Contains graphic medical images) Time-lapse showing how, three weeks from conception, the embryo starts to take shape.
- Programme: Growing Babies
- Episode: 01: War in the Womb
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Biology | Reproduction, genetics and evolution | Reproduction | Fetal development and birth
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
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