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Ch. 18 - Developmental Genetics

Chapter 18, Problem 4

Early development in Drosophila is atypical in that pattern formation takes place in a syncytial blastoderm, allowing free diffusion of transcription factors between nuclei. In many other animal species, the fertilized egg is divided by cellular cleavages into a larger and larger number of smaller and smaller cells.

How must the model that describes Drosophila development be modified for describing animal species whose early development is not syncytial?

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