The Illinois state sales tax rate is 6.25%, and the average IL sales tax after local surtaxes is 8.19%. Counties and cities can charge an additional local sales tax of up to 3.5%, for a maximum possible combined sales tax of 9.75%.
(clue: look up Hirschsprung's disease.) The first important step in development of the digestive system occurs during folding of the embryonic disc as neurulation takes place (weeks 4 and 5) - the thin endodermal layer is gathered up' inside the embryonic body to form a tubular structure. Gut tube, respiratory diverticulum, yolk sac, and allantois.
Endoderm is one of the three primary germ layers in the very early embryo. The other two layers are the ectoderm (outside layer) and mesoderm (middle layer), with the endoderm being the innermost layer. Cells migrating inward along the archenteron form the inner layer of the gastrula, which develops into the endoderm.