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Name the term/process for the following statements:

An organ which provides nutrition to the fetus.


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Placenta:

  1. Placenta is a composite structure made of chorionic villi of the fetus and endometrium of mother.
  2. It connects developing fetus to the uterine wall and provides oxygen and nutrition to the embryo.
  3. It removes waste products such as carbon dioxide produced by the fetus.

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