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The formation of the notochord is importantbecause:

a.

it pushes the brain into the caudal embryo justventral to the neuropore
b.

it becomes the peripheral nervous system
c.

it is associated with the formation of the overlyingneural plate
d.

it produces the laterally placed neural crestcells

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