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____ - refers to a series of changes in the state of the cell, tissue, organ or organism
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Development
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Underlying process that gives rise to the structure and function of living organisms
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Development
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____ aimed at understanding how gene expression controls this process
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Developmental genetics
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Sperm and egg unite to produce a zygote That diploid cell divides and develops into the embryo Cells divide and begin to arrange themselves Each cell becomes determined, destined to become a particular cell type |
Development
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____ occurs before ____- cells function and morphology have permanently changed into a highly specialized cell type
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Commitment
differentiation |
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____ – large chromosomes, big enough easy to work with
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Fruit fly
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____ – multicellular organism that we know excruciating details that form the first zygote we know the fate of every cell in the organism, and the reverse where every single cell in the adult cam from
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Roundworm
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____, Simplest that we know about, drosophila is the next simplest..
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Roundworm
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Often can track this because add dye to an initial progenitor cell and see where the dye itself migrates.
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pattern of cell division and fate of each cell
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____ – do not know developmental patterns nearly as much, because it is much more complex.
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House mouse
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____, look at their eggs easier to do because of big eggs.
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Zebrafish
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Plant – ____ wild mustard family, many greens are in this family, (broccoli, cabbage lettuce etc)
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Arabidopsis (thale cress)
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Plant bodies are formed along a ____ axis in a ____ pattern.
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root-shoot
radial |
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Once you get past the point where all the cells are the same, it is now about ____ that will dictate your fate.
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where you are
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Originally a cell is ___- can be any cell in the body
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totipotent
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Initial part of ____ is forming a body and setting in place formation with 3 axes.
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development
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_____ –
Not only going from 1 to a whole lot of cells, but creating an organism with a specific form. |
Pattern formation
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A ____ pattern of development takes place.
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synchronized
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3 body axes...
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dorso ventral – is front and back
anteroposterior is top and bottom (human head and butt) right-left |
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Pattern formation –
May also be ____. (in higher animals, see segmentation only in early development) |
segmented
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____ - has differentiated enough form their neighbors that there is now cells that they cannot differentiate into, and some that they can differentiate into
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Pluripotent
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____, originally ectoderm versus endoderm and then onto muscle cell versus liver cell etc.
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Differentiation
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Cell responds to signal, may receive ____ signal ex. Originally webbing between fingers that is killed off to get the nice digits we have.
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apoptosis
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Each cell receives ____ that tells it where ot go and what to become
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positional information
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Cell may respond by
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Cell division,
cell migration, cell differentiation cell death (apoptosis) |
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Positional information -
Each cell in the body will become appropriate cell type based on its ____ |
relative position
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Group of bid working towards creating a limb, one move towards differentiation to create the limb, then further differentiation within that limb for all the different cell types . |
Limb bud differentiation
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A protein and its ____ as it moves though the hand differentiates the differences between the fingers, starting at the pinky and then towards the thumb
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concentration gradient
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Differential gene expression in the cells
____ affect each other Gene expression is affected by the chemical messengers |
Neighboring cells
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____- proteins that are involved in more differentiation.
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Morphogens
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____ - cells that are stuck to each other can communicate with each other
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Cell adhesion
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2 main mechanisms used to communicate positional information to cells during development -
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morphogens
cell adhesion. |
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____ dependent matter - ex fingers on hand..
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Concentration
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Morphogens are present in the ____, (waiting to tell the zygote what to do and how to do it)
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unfertilized egg
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____ - give postional information and promote cellular changes
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Morphogens
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____ - act in a concentration dependent manner with a critical threshold concentration
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Morphogens
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Are distributed asymmetrically, in the oocyte or egg precursor, in the embryo by secretion and transport
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Morphogens
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____ - cells govern fate of neighboring cells.
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Induction
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____ - asymmetric synthesis and extracellular distribution of a morphogen
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Induction
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____ distribution of morphogens in the ____.
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Assymmetric
oocyte |
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____ "one side is the developing stuff and the other is the yolk to feed it"
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animal pole and vegetable pole
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____ - each cell makes its own cell adhesion molecules (CAMs)
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Cell adhesion
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____ of a cell within a multicellular organism is strongly influenced by the combination of ____ it makes with other cells and with the ____
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Positioning
contacts extracellular matrix |
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Highly synchronized pattern of ____ being formed, then gene expression of other proteins.
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transcription factors
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Compare fruit fly to human, certain ____ are similar, many of the core regulators that are there for the fruit fly are also there for the mammal.
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transcription factors
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____ - certain genes expressed at specific phase of development in a particular cell type
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Differential gene regulation
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Four general phases for body formation -
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SBAM
Organize body along major axes Organize into smaller regions (organs, legs) Cells organize to produce body parts Cells themselves change morphologies and become differentiated |
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Parallel between phases and expression of specific ____
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transcription factors
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____ create segmentation
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Somites
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____, this is replaced by the spinal cord and vertical column in higher animals.
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Notochord
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A lot of early differentiation takes place in the _____.
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1st trimester.
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____ - has the ability to give rise to any cell
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Totipotent
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____ - ultimate stem cell is fertilized egg, can produce all adult cell types.
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Totipotent
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____ - embryonic cells, can differntiate into almost any cell but a single cell has lost the ability to produce an entire individual
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Pluripotent
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____ - has some differentiation that has taken place, so cannot differentiate into any cell
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Pluripotent
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Totipotent cell, the ____
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fertilized egg
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____ - cluster of cells, have slightly differentiated this cluster of cells will give rise to a blastocyst
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Pluripotent
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Adult ____ stem cells -
In testes And other hematopoietic stem cells |
unipotent
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____ - can differentiate far fewer types of cells, hematopoietic stem cells
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Multipotent
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____ - daughter cells become only one cell type, stem cells in testis produce only sperm
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Unipotent
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All long bones contribute to ____, ex. Femur, pelvis, arm bones
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hematopoetic stem cells
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____ allow you to keep up blood cells, white blood cells, immune stuff etc.
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Stem cells
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2 key features of complex plant morphology
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Root-shoot axis
Radial pattern |
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Plant development
Similarities to animal development |
Use differential gene expression
Use of transcription factors |
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Plant development
Differs from animal development |
No cell migration
No morphogens An entirely new individual can be regenerated from somatic cells (totipotent) |
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Two zones of growth, root ____ etc
And patterns |
towards water
toward light |
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Cluster, growth/differentiation due to ____
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environmental conditions
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____ and ____, highly extreme for chicken and nonexistent for frog.
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Animal
vegetable poles |
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Explain that the ____ begins the developing embryo and the ____ becomes the nutrients the embryo requires but that they are still contained in the embryo itself
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animal pole
vegetable pole |
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____ - some invagination, then quickly differentiation into 3 different dermal tissues (endo, ecto and meso derm), and it is now pluripotent..
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Neurulation
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Tadpole to adult, from herbivore to carnivore, this requires some ____
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differentiation
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Just lots of variation in ____ in early stages.
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vertebrates
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Want the ____ to implant in the uterine wall
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blastocyst
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____, fertilized at top of fallopian tube, fertilized egg slowly goes through developmental stages, it can implant in tube and that is life threatening to the adult female.
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Tubal pregnancy
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Typically, ____ is outside, ____ middle and ____ inside..
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ecto
meso endo |
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____ - digestive tube, pharynx, respiratory tube
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Endoderm
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____ - notochord, skeletal muscle cells, kidney tube red blood cells
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Mesoderm
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____ - outer surface, CNS and PNS
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Ectoderm
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____ is a morphogen, often the concentration of the morphogen dictates what the cell will become.
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Activin
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As with difference in pinkie and thumb one ____
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chemical concentration gradient
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