Developmental Biology Questions
These questions are not intended to test your knowledge but rather to stimulate your curiosity and to help you understand the kinds of questions researchers are investigating.
- What is development?
- How does development start?
- Does development stop? How, why and when?
- How does a cell divide into two cells?
- How does a cell know when to divide?
- Do all cells develop the same?
- Do all daughter cells survive?
- Where, when and how does a sperm enter an egg?
- How does fertilization start?
- How does a zygote
develop into an organism? - What happens during the development from a zygote to an organism?
- Do all embryos develop the same?
Random Worm Term
A temperature-sensitive mutant of the zyg gene. zyg-1(oj7), zyg-1(b1), zyg-1(it4), zyg-1(it37) are alleles of zyg-1 gene, each one resulting in temperature sensitive mutations. C. elegans II, p.1046
of zyg-1 gene, each one resulting in temperature sensitive mutations. C. elegans II, p.1046