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Quiz No.1
- A region of globular actin molecules lies between the nucleus and the acrosomal vesicle.
________________________________________________________________sea urchins
- A region that is not translated into protein. _____________________Untranslated region
- Transcription factors have …..major domains. _______________________________ three
- The mammalian egg is also surrounded by a layer of cells called the _____________cumulus
- Red blood cells make ____________________________________________________globins
- Protein synthesis is accomplished by ribosomes and ______________________________tRNA
- Nucleosome is composed of an …..of histone proteins.________________________ octamer
- The regulation of gene expression can be accomplished by
______________________________________________Selective messenger RNA translation
- Development connects genotype and ___________________________________phenotype
10. Protocadherins play important in separating the notochord from the other mesodermal tissues
during …….gastrulation._______________________________________________ Xenopus
11.
12. controlling the efficiency and rate of transcription is _______________________Enhancer
13. Knowledge of gene activity in humans can be obtained by candidate gene mapping or
positional cloning. ________________________________________________both A and B
14. Which transcription factor, which is needed for mammalian eye, nervous system, and pancreas
15. Eukaryotic genes are contained within a complex of DNA and protein called ______chromatin
16. The "negative enhancers " are also called ________________________________silencers
17. The technique which is in situ hybridization is ___________________________Northern blots
18. Which transmit genes from parent to offspring, _______________________________fertilization
19. Sperm were discovered in ________________________________________________________1678
20. The RNA polymerase binds with in the start of transcription. _____________________Promoter
21. The study of how changes in development may cause evolutionary changes and of how an
organism's ancestry may constrain the types of changes that are possible_______________
________________________________________________________Evolutionary embryology
22. Cell fate becomes increasingly restricted until a cell is____________Terminally differentiated
23. The ------ is the hierarchical series of decisions involving specific pre-existing cell types.______
________________________________________________________ Developmental hierarchy
24.
_______________________________________________________________________Inductio
n
25. The ----- gives rise to the epidermis, nervous system, and pigment cells__________Ectoderm
26. The _____ generates the kidneys, gonads, bones, heart, and blood cells________Mesoderm
27. The _____forms the lining of the digestive tube and the respiratory system_______Endoderm
28. Potency is______property_______________________________________________Intrinsic
29. ______ is a discipline that studies embryonic and other developmental processes _____
__________________________________________________________Developmental biology
30. A cytoplasm that contains many nuclei is called a __________________________Syncytium
31. The study of animal development has traditionally been called_______________Embryology
32. ______is the entire range of the cell types a particular cell can give rise to in all possible
environments___________________________________________________________.Potency 33. In amphibians, metamorphosis is initiated by hormones from the tadpole's gland, and these
changes prepare an aquatic organism for a terrestrial existence?.___________________ Thyroid
34. All multicellular organisms arise by a slow process of progressive change called_________
__________________________________________________________________Development
35. Once the three germ layers are established, the cells interact with one another and rearrange
themselves to produce tissues and organs. This process is called_____________Organogenesis
36. _____of a cell is all the different cell types, its descendants can become during normal
development________________________________________________________________Fate
37. All the other cells of the body are called Somatic cells. This separation of somatic cells (which
give rise to the individual body) and germ cells (which contribute to the formation of a new
generation) is often one of the first differentiations to occur during animal development?.___ True
38.
______________________________________________________________________Induction
39. The male leopard frogs make their sperm in the summer, and by the time they begin
hibernation in autumn, they have all the sperm that are to be available for the following spring's
breeding
season?.__________________________________________________________________ True
40. In Drosophila, the anterior most portion of the egg contains an mRNA that encodes a protein
called____________________________________________________________________Bicoid
41.
42. Autonomous specification gives rise to a pattern of development referred to as_________
_____ _______________________________________________________Mosaic development
43. In morphogenesis, One hypothesis proposed on the base of Hammerling study is that, “The
nucleus synthesizes a stable mRNA that lies dormant in the cytoplasm until the time of cap
formation__________________________________________________________________True
44. The ______ animals are those who have ectoderm and endoderm, but no true
mesoderm?._________________________________________________________ Diploblastic
45. ____________in different species are those organs whose similarity is due to their sharing a
common ancestral structure___________________________________Homologous structures
46.
47. Two identical cells can follow ______ if one is exposed to an external signal (often secreted by
a different cell)___________________________________________________ Alternative fates
48. _____can be caused by genetic factors (mutations, aneuploidies, translocations) or by
environmental agents (certain chemicals, certain viruses, radiation)_____ Congenital anomalies
49. Cell fate is equal to potency plus______________________________________ Environment
50. _____is the study of how anatomy changes during the development of different Organisms_
___ _____________________________________________________Comparative embryology
51. Specification by differential acquisition of certain cytoplasmic molecules present in the egg is
Known as;-______________________________________________Autonomous specification
52. The ability of the embryonic cells to change their fates to compensate for the missing parts is
called________________________________________________________________Regulation
53. _____produce the same lineages in each embryo of the species________Invariant cleavage
54. In frogs, Estrogen Is A hormone that can instruct the ___to make and secrete the yolk proteins
which are then transported through the blood into the enlarging eggs in the ovary _________________Liver
55. In frogs, First, it allows the egg to complete its second meiotic division, which provides the egg
with a haploid pronucleus. The egg pronucleus and the sperm pronucleus will meet in the egg
cytoplasm to form the diploid zygotic nucleus?_____________________________________True
56. In most species of frogs, fertilization is_____. The male frog grabs the female's back and
fertilizes the eggs as the female frog releases them?.____________________________ External
57. Cytoplasmic determinants are the molecules in that can help to determine cell fate_Cytoplasm
58. Sex and reproduction are two ___ processes…__________ Different/ distinct and separable
59. In frogs. Another ovarian hormone, progesterone. signals the egg to resume its _____
division_________________________________________________________________.Meiotic
60. In frogs, the blastopore expands into a circle and cells migrating through this circle become the
lateral and ventral mesoderm the cell remaining on the outside become the _________Ectoderm 61. In frogs, A rod of mesodermal cells in the most dorsal portion of the embryo. At this stage, the
embryo is called a _____ . The neural precursor cells elongate, stretch, and fold into the embryo
forming the neural tube___________________________________________________Neurula
62. Rana pipiens usually lays around ____ eggs, while the bullfrog, Rana catesbiana, can lay as
many as 20,000. Some species lay their eggs in pond vegetation, and the jelly adheres to the
plants and anchors the eggs?__________________________________________________ 2500
63. Sex without reproduction is also common among _____ organisms?.___________ Unicellular
64. ________principles state that the general features of a large group of animals appear earlier in
the embryo than do the specialized features of a smaller group…____________.Karl von Baer’s
65. The individuals of each species, however, are divided into two mating types: plus and minus.
When a plus and a minus meet, they join their cytoplasm, and their nuclei fuse to form a diploid
zygote?___________________________________________________________________ True
66. Sex and reproduction are two distinct and separable processes. Reproduction involves the
creation of new individuals. Sex involves the combining of genes from two different individuals into
new arrangements?_________________________________________________________ True
67. The asymmetric distribution of cytoplasmic determinants indicates that the mechanism of
differentiation is entirely —____________________________________________Intrinsic series
68. If the frog is mature, the pituitary gland secretes ____ hormones that stimulate the ovary to
make_________________________________________________________________.Estrogen
69. Gastrulation in the frog begins at a point on the embryo surface roughly __ degrees Opposite
the point of sperm entry with the formation of a dimple, called the blastopore?..____________ 180
70. Metazoans belongs to one of _____ major branches…______________________________3
71. Autonomous specification was first demonstrated in 1887 by a French medical student-----------
--_______________________________________________________________ Laurent Chabry
72. Metazoans belong to one of……… major branches?________________________________3
73. Which Transcription factor is required for mammalian eye. nervous system, and pancreas
74. Rana pipiens usually lays around …..eggs, while the bullfrog, Rana catesbiana, can lay as
many as 20,000. Some species lay their eggs in pond vegetation, and the jelly adheres to the
plants and anchors the eqgs?________________________________________________2500
75.
76. MITF is required for ________the production of pigment cells and their pigments.
77. The _____ factors that initiate the acrosomal reaction in sea urchins are often highly specific to
each species?_________________________________________________________ Egg jelly
78. Major Events in the process of Fertilization are __________________________._________4
79. Sperm consists of __________________________________________.A haploid nucleus
80.
81. Only one sperm can ultimately fertilize the egg._________________________________ True
82. The egg white is known as the Yolk?________________________________________ False
83.
84. The exocytosis of the acrosomal vesicle is caused by the calcium-mediated fusion of the
acrosomal membrane with the adjacent sperm plasma membrane?___________________ True
85. Only one sperm can ultimately fertilize the egg.________________________________ True
86. The _____ factors that initiate the acrosomal reaction in sea urchins are often highly specific to
each species?_________________________________________________________ Egg jelly
87.
88. The exocytosis of the acrosomal vesicle is caused by the calcium-mediated fusion of the
acrosomal membrane with the adjacent sperm plasma membrane?__________________ True
89.
90.
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