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Unit 3: Genetics
The Genetic Basis of Development
Review
Multicellular organisms develop from a single-celled
to cells of many different types through
cell
,
cell
,
and
.
Differences between cells is mainly due to differential
gene
, even though different cells share genomic
.
Some cells remain
and can generate a whole
organism.
One technique for making
of animals is
nuclear
, which has been used to clone mammals such as
Dolly
and
Cat.
Animal cloning needs to reverse
changes such as
of
histones
that affect gene
in early development.
Mammalian
cells can be harvested from the
stage during embryonic development, or from some adult tissues, and can differentiate into several types of specialized
cells.
Cell
involves
of genes for tissue-specific proteins, and leads to
observable
.
Cytoplasmic
in the cytoplasm of the unfertilized egg regulate the expression of genes in the
during embryonic development.
Signal molecules from embryonic cells may also cause transcriptional changes in nearby
cells in a
process
called
; an example is the
nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans
.
Drosophila
Cell signaling is also involved in
apoptosis.
or
cell death, which is essential for morphogenesis of
digits
as well as
immune
reponses in vertebrates.
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