What is meant by "radial and indeterminate cleavage."

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Radial cleavage is the type of holoblastic cleavage that occurs in deuterostomes like vertebrates and echinoderms. In this type of cleavage, cells (blastomeres) at the top layer are placed directly above the cells of the bottom layer during cell division that results in the radial symmetry around the pole to pole axis of embryo.

Indeterminate cleavage is a type of cleavage in which the blastomers (cells) produced during the embryonic division of original cell have equal developmental potency. They can be isolated and each one can grow into whole organism individually.

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Radial means along the radius,means from centre to the periphery and inderminate means it is not decided that whch part of cleavage product will make which organ or part of body
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