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Fertilization Terms

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Preformation   the idea that the embryo is already formed and present in the sperm or egg in miniature form  
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epigenesis   idea that an embryo emerges gradually from a relatively formless egg  
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defferentitation   cells become specialized to perform a function  
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morphogenesis   movement of cells and tissue leads to formation of shape and organs  
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Step One   sperm reaches egg; acrosome releases hydrollytic enzymes by exocytosis  
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Step Two   Enzymes activate cytoskeletal elements that elongate the end structure and penetrate the jelly coat of the egg  
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Step Three   Tip of acrosome has proteins that bind to receptors on the vitelline layer just exterior to the plasma membrane. IN some animals, there is a lock and key recognition to assure that they are only fertilized by the proper species  
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Step Four   Egg and sperm plasma membranes fuse  
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Step Five   This causes an electrical response in the egg plasma membrane  
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Step Six   This depolarization prevents other sperm from penetrating the egg (fast block to polyspermy)  
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Step Seven   Fusion also causes vessivles inside egg to exocytosis contents which catalyze a hardening of the extracellular matrix of the cell thus acting as teh slow block to polyspermy  
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Step Eight   In mammals, fusion of egg and sperm nuclei does not occur until after the first mitotic division.  
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Vegetal Pole   end of the egg with the yolk  
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Animal Pole   end of the egg with very little yolk  
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heterogeneous organization of cytoplasm in unfertilized egg   leads to regional differences in the early embryo of many animal species  
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cell-cell interactions   compound differences initiated by cytoplasmic organization and by the elocation of cells during morphogenesis  
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apoptosis   programmed cell death  
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totipotent   a cell that has retained the potential to form all parts of the animal  
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determination   a progressive restriction of a cell's developmental potential  
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induction   the ability of one group of cells to influence the development of an adjacent group of cells  
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tissue-specific proteins   proteins found only in a certain type of cell  
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genomic equivalence   all cells contain the same genes  
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maternal effect genes   phenotypes expressed by these genes are exclusively the product of the mother's contribution usually mutations in genes that are necessary for the egg polarity to be set up properly  
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homeotic genes   genes that determine the anatomical identity of different segments of an individual.  
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