Arrange the cytoplasmic rearrangement of the fertilized egg of the tunicate, Styela partita in consecutive order. (I) After sperm entry into the vegetal hemisphere of the oocyte, the yellow cortical cytoplasm and the clear cytoplasm derived from the breakdown of the oocyte nucleus contract vegetally toward the sperm. (II) Before fertilization, yellow cortical cytoplasm surrounds the gray (yolky) inner cytoplasm. (III) The final position of the yellow cytoplasm marks the location where cells give rise to tail muscles. (IV) As the sperm pronucleus migrates animally toward the newly formed egg pronucleus, the yellow and clear cytoplasm move with it.

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Arrange the cytoplasmic rearrangement of the fertilized egg of the tunicate, Styela partita in consecutive order.

(I) After sperm entry into the vegetal hemisphere of the oocyte, the yellow cortical cytoplasm and the clear cytoplasm derived from the breakdown of the oocyte nucleus contract vegetally toward the sperm.

(II) Before fertilization, yellow cortical cytoplasm surrounds the gray (yolky) inner cytoplasm.

(III) The final position of the yellow cytoplasm marks the location where cells give rise to tail muscles.

(IV) As the sperm pronucleus migrates animally toward the newly formed egg pronucleus, the yellow and clear cytoplasm move with it.

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