A chemical substance or compound involved in budding or the earliest stages of embryonic development.
From Greek 'blastos' (bud, embryo) + 'cheme' (chemistry, related to 'chymeia'). A specialized biological chemistry term.
This word shows scientists recognizing that development isn't just mechanical—there are chemical signals making cells know what to become, long before we had names for genes and proteins!
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