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Apical Meristem   Embryonic plant tissue in the tips of roots and in the buds of shoots that supplies cells for the plant to grow in length.  
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Apoptosis   The changes that occur within a cell as it undergoes programmed cell death, which is brought about by signals that trigger the activation of a cascade of suicide proteins in the cell destined to die.  
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Cell Differentiation   The structural and functional divergence of cells as they become specialized during a multicellular organism’s development; dependent on the control of gene expression.  
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Cell Lineage   The ancestry of a cell.  
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Chimera   An organism with a mixture of genetically different cells.  
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Clone   (1) A lineage of genetically identical individuals or cells. (2) In popular usage, a single individual organism that is genetically identical to another individual. (3) As a verb, to make one or more genetic replicas of an individual or cell.  
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Cloning   Using a somatic cell from a multicellular organism to make one or more genetically identical individuals.  
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Cytoplasmic Determinants   The maternal substances in the egg that influence the course of early development by regulating the expression of genes that affect the developmental fate of cells.  
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Determination   The progressive restriction of developmental potential, causing the possible fate of each cell to become more limited as the embryo develops.  
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Egg-Polarity Gene   Another name for a maternal effect gene, a gene that helps control the orientation (polarity) of the egg.  
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Embryonic Lethal   A mutation with a phenotype leading to death at the embryo or larval stage.  
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Homeobox   A 180-nucleotide sequence within homeotic genes and some other developmental genes that is widely conserved in animals. Related sequences occur in plants and prokaryotes.  
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Homeotic Gene   Any of the genes that control the overall body plan of animals and plants by controlling the developmental fate of groups of cells.  
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Induction   The ability of one group of embryonic cells to influence the development of another.  
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Maternal Effect Gene   A gene that, when mutant in the mother, results in a mutant phenotype in the offspring, regardless of the genotype.  
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Model Organism   An organism chosen to study broad biological principles.  
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Morphogen   A substance, such as Bicoid protein, that provides positional information in the form of a concentration gradient along an embryonic axis.  
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Morphogenesis   The development of body shape and organization.  
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Organ Identity Genes   Plant homeotic genes that use positional information to determine which emerging leaves develop into which types of floral organs.  
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Pattern Formation   The ordering of cells into specific three-dimensional structures, an essential part of shaping an organism and its individual parts during development.  
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Pluripotent   Describing a stem cell, from an embryo or adult organism, that can give rise to multiple but not all differentiated cell types.  
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Positional Information   Signals to which genes regulating development respond, indicating a cell’s location relative to other cells in an embryonic structure.  
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Segmentation Gene   A gene of the embryo that directs the actual formation of segments after the embryo’s axes are defined.  
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Stem Cell   Any relatively unspecialized cell that can divide during a single division into one identical daughter cell and one more specialized daughter cell, which can undergo further differentiation.  
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Totipotent   Describing a cell that can give rise to all parts of an organism.  
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