Quiz Group 1

What is the total number of somatic cells in an adult C. elegans hermaphrodite?

One modification discovered by Lillie in 1898, is brought about by an alteration of the typical pattern of molluscan______ in a family of bivalve mollusks, the unionid clams.

The pha-4 genes controls the needed to form the ____?

What property of C. elegans allows easy cell tracking?

The GLP-1 protein is a member of a widely conserved family called the_________, which serve as cell membrane receptors in many cell-cell interactions; it is seen on both the ABa and ABp cells.

This attaches themselves to fish and hitchhike until they are ready to drop off and metamorphose into adult clams?

Which germline precursor cell moves inward during gastrulation?

Which blastomere in molluscan development receives the contents of the polar lobe and is autonomously specified to develop into specific tissues, regardless of its environment?

It contains a high concentration of morphogenetic determinants, which are essential for the development of specific tissues and organs.

Which two specific cells migrate inward to form the gut primordium?