Topic Biology embryo development , I dont understand what a Somite is?

[Mrhyde]

Hi can you please help explain to me what a somite is , I cant understand it from googling info on it still ?

These are some links I was reading but I still have no clue what it is ?

-- http://image.slidesharecdn.com/embr...d-dental-structures-2-7-638.jpg?cb=1435485232

-- http://images.slideplayer.com/13/4019234/slides/slide_23.jpg

-- http://images.slideplayer.com/27/9003503/slides/slide_26.jpg

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[Mrhyde]

Actually I just saw on DAT Destroyer that it says :


Somites are segmented blocks of tissue that form on either side of the notochord.

Somites go on to produce :

the vertebrae of the backbone

AND muscles of the Axial Skeleton.

-- anything else I should know about it ?

 

[moose786]

Actually I just saw on DAT Destroyer that it says :


Somites are segmented blocks of tissue that form on either side of the notochord.

Somites go on to produce :

the vertebrae of the backbone

AND muscles of the Axial Skeleton.

-- anything else I should know about it ?

Nope that's all you need to know. I say this because that's all I needed to know from my biology ii class this past spring semester. That's all my notes have on it too