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C. elegans feeds on:
soil bacteria
What size is the C. elegans genome?
97 Mb
C. elegans has how many chromosomes?
6
halocentric
chromosomes that diffuse at the centromere
vulva
the external female genitalia
spermatheca
the storage site for sperm; contain about 150 sperm
blastomeres
The large cells produced by early embryonic cleavages
C. elegans aging can stop and then restart in response to
environmental signals.

True or false?
True!
metameric
composed of repeating patterns of cell groups with similar functions
ablate
to remove or dissipate by melting, vaporization, erosion, etc.
totipotent
retain the complete developmental
potential of the fertilized egg
embryonic stem cells
can be made to differentiate into any human tissue type in the laboratory
GFP stands for:
green fluorescent protein
GFP is:
jellyfish gene, which has the advantage of being visible in living animals
dsRNA is short for:
double-stranded RNA
RNAi stands for:
RNA-mediated interference
positional cloning
cloning based only on the gene’s position in the genome
genetic mosaics
Genetically constructed animals composed of both wild-type
and mutant cells
maternal-effect mutations
Mutations in maternal-effect genes; disrupt the early
events of embryogenesis in C. elegans
ligand
signaling molecule
apoptosis
programmed cell death