Vertebral Column
- Draw a typical vertebra with these features: Spinous and Transverse processes, Pedicles, Laminae and Articular Processes
- What do the transverse processes do?
- What is an intervertebral disc herniation?
- How many of each vertebrae are there?
- What are the three distinguishing features of the majority of cervical vertebrae?
- What are the two features of the thoracic vertebrae?
- What ligaments prevent hyperflexion/extension and strengthen the joints between vertebral columns?
General Embryology
- What is the first stage of the cell division process called?
- What does this ball of 16 cells become?
- How is this further subdivided in the second week?
- How is the primitive streak formed?
- What direction does the above process move towards?

- What are the different colored parts of the diagram above? Where is the mesoderm?
- What do some cells of the neural folds do?
- What else do these neural crest cells form?
- What happens to the notochord in childhood?