Term: optic vesicle neurogenesis
Name: optic vesicle
Synonyms: optic vesicles
Definition: Portion of tissue that is comprised of neuroepithelium which has pinched off from the anterior neural keel and will form the optic cup.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000050]

Name: neurogenesis
Synonyms: nervous system cell generation, neural cell differentiation
Definition: Generation of cells within the nervous system.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0022008]    QuickGO    AmiGO