maternal placenta development

id: GO:0001893
name: maternal placenta development
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Maternally driven process whose specific outcome is the progression of the placenta over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The placenta is an organ of metabolic interchange between fetus and mother, partly of embryonic origin and partly of maternal origin.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0048856anatomical structure development