Exam 26: Developmental Genetics

A Drosophila larva that develops from an oocyte that has no bicoid mRNA will have what developmental defect?

The bicoid gene has what pattern of inheritance?

The ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm are formed during the ________ stage of embryogenesis.

The model organism for the study of plant development is ________.

Cell lineage diagrams are most easily prepared in which model organisms?

The CLV3 gene is expressed in the organizing center and induces the cells in the central zone to become undifferentiated stem cells

Which segment gene is activated first in the Drosophila embryo?

Hox complexes in mammals are homologous to invertebrate ________.

In humans, what gene determines maleness?

The consensus coding sequence of homeotic genes is called a ________.

A C. elegans with a heterochronic mutation in lin-14 will lay eggs normally.

Skeletal muscle cell development is controlled by ________ proteins.

What is the first stage of embryonic pattern development in Drosophila?

What is one way in which plant development differs from animal development?

Pole cells are responsible for forming what structures in an adult organism?

What is one characteristic of a homeodomain?

HoxC-6 is always expressed posterior to vertebrae 7 during the development of every vertebrate.

The ABC model explains the process of ________.