Term: optic vesicle neurogenesis
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Name: optic vesicle
Synonyms: optic vesicles
Definition: Portion of tissue that is comprised of neuroepithelium which has pinched off from the anterior neural keel and will form the optic cup.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000050]
Name: neurogenesis
Synonyms: nervous system cell generation, neural cell differentiation
Definition: Generation of cells within the nervous system.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0022008]    QuickGO    AmiGO