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Question
Given below is the name of certain stage/substance related to reproduction and found in human body. Answer the questions related to it.
Placenta
- What are the two sources that form placenta?
- Name any two main substances which pass from foetus to mother through placenta.
- Name any two hormones it produces.
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Solution
- The placenta is formed of two sets of minute finger-like projections, the villi. One set of villi are given out by the uterine wall and the other set by an extension (allantois) from the embryo.
- Carbon dioxide and urea.
- Oestrogens and progesterone.
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