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Evo Devo Bio Vocab
Words to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| histotypic aggregation | ? |
| Cadherins | They play important roles in cell adhesion, ensuring that cells within tissues are bound together. They are dependent on calcium (Ca2+) ions to function, hence their name. |
| Inner Cell Mass | In early embryogenesis of most eutherian mammals, the inner cell mass is the mass of cells inside the primordial embryo that will eventually give rise to the definitive structures of the fetus. Froms in the earliest stages of developement |
| homologous | Homologous chromosomes are chromosomes with the same genes and similar sequences. Homology is important in reproduction because pairs of homologous chromosomes line up together during meiosis. |
| fertilization | The fusion of genetic material from the two gametes- sperm and egg, which stimulates the egg to develop |
| cleavage | is a series of extremely rapid mitotic divisions that immediately follows fertilization |
| Vegetal pole | the yolk rich pole of the egg |
| animal pole | the area where the yolk concentration is particularly low |
| base | ? |
| The process of meiosis focuses on: | chromosome replication that has a net result is four cells each with a haploid nucleus |
| The process of mitosis focuses: | is the process by which a eukaryotic cell separates the chromosomes in its cell nucleus into two identical sets in two nuclei. (Cloning) |
| Teratogen | "monster-formers"; the study of how environmental agents disrupt normal development is called teratology. |
| Autoradiography | The cells seen to be radioactive will be descendants of the cells of the graft, and can be distinguished using fixed microscope slides containing the sectioned tissues that are dipped in photographic emulsion |
| Genotype | genetic makeup |
| Phenotype | the physical expression of genes |
| Nucleic acid | is a macromolecule composed of chains of monomeric nucleotides. In biochemistry these molecules carry genetic information or form structures within cells. |
| histotypic aggregation | The reconstruction of complex tissues from individual cells |
| transgene | animals containing a gene from another individual |
| blastomere | During cleavage, the enormous volume of zygote cytoplasm is divided into these numerous smaller cells, at the end of cleavage, the blastomeres have usually formed a sphere known as a blastula. |
| morphogen | evelopmental biology a morphogen is rigorously used to mean a signaling molecule that acts directly on cells (not through serial induction) to produce specific cellular responses dependent on morphogen concentration. |