Spiral cleavage
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In embryonic development, spiral cleavage is one of two types of holoblastic or complete cleavage. At the third cleavage the halves are oblique to the polar axis and typically produce an upper quartet of smaller cells that come to be set between the furrows of the lower quartet. All groups showing spiral cleavage are protostomia.
