Exam 25: Developmental Genetics

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

Hox complexes in mammals are homologous to invertebrate ______ .

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

What gene in humans prevents male development?

A mutation in the B genes of Arabidopsis would result in the incorrect formation of what structure?

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

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

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

What gene must be expressed in a Drosophila for it to develop into a female fly?

Antennapedia in Drosophila is an example of a _________.

Molecules that convey positional information and promote developmental changes are called _______.

In humans, what gene determines maleness?

Studies of invertebrate and vertebrate development suggest that there is a universal body plan for animal development.

A mutation in which the fate of cell lineages is not synchronized in an organism is called a ____.

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

The ABC model explains the process of _______.

The spatial arrangement of different regions in the body is called a _______.

The _______ of a morphogen determines its effect on development.

An XY human individual with a deletion that has inactivated SRY will developmentally be what sex?

In Drosophila embryos, the anterior compartment of a segment overlaps with the posterior compartment of a parasegment.