• Question: how does an foetus produce its own blood

    Asked by aabb266 to Patricia, Kamal, George, Charles, Beatrice on 17 Jan 2017.
    • Photo: George Githinji

      George Githinji answered on 17 Jan 2017:


      Blood can be viewed as an organ, the same way like skin or limbs or bones. The ability to create these organs is encoded in the genetic blueprint of life, the DNA molecule. As the foetus develop from a cell to embryo, it goes through a lot of cell division, these early cells develop and specialise to form different organs including the different components of blood.

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