Reproduction and

fetal development 11.2 Fetal development Worksheet 11.2.1

Lesson 2



Embryo development
You began as a single fertilised egg cell. This cell split into two, and each cell
divided again. Each division took about a day.
1 Complete the table to see how many cells you were made of after 8 days.
This is when you arrived in your mother’s uterus.

Day 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Number
1 2 4
of cells

After 8 weeks, you had grown from an embryo into a fetus.

Your mass increased very rapidly, as the line graph below shows.

2 Use the graph to answer these questions.

a How long did it take the mass of this fetus to reach 1500 g?

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b How old was the fetus when it was gaining mass most rapidly?

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c What was the mass of the fetus when it was half-way through its
development (20 weeks)?

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d What was the mass of the fetus when it was ready to be born?

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