Neural folds
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In front of the primitive streak
Primitive streak
The primitive streak is a structure that forms during the early stages of avian, reptilian and mammalian embryonic development.-Introduction:...

 two longitudinal ridges, caused by a folding up of the ectoderm, make their appearance, one on either side of the middle line. These are named the neural folds; they commence some little distance behind the anterior end of the embryonic disk
Embryonic disk
The floor of the amniotic cavity is formed by the embryonic disk composed of a layer of prismatic cells, the embryonic ectoderm, derived from the inner cell-mass and lying in apposition with the endoderm....

, where they are continuous with each other, and from there gradually extend backward, one on either side of the anterior end of the primitive streak. Also, after differentiation it turns into the neural tubes.

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