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animal pole

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animal pole
n.
The nuclear site in an ovum and the point from which polar bodies are extruded during maturation. Also called germinal pole.

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These cells then started to darken, losing their transparency (Figure 4A, B), and became located along the inner surface of the body wall; in contrast, cells in normal larvae retained their transparency and were located near the primary gut (archenteron), moving later through the blastocele to the animal pole (Figure 4C, F).
4) In the latter, Deleuze differentiates between these two concepts, which he refers respectively to "a vegetable or vegetative pole (permeation) and the animal pole (acting out)," and emphasizes the potential for violence that exists in both.
 
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