Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 19, Problem 1S
The fate map for C. elegans (refer to figure 19.3) diagrams development of a multicellular organism from a single cell. Use this fate map to determine the number of cell divisions required to establish the population of cells that will become (a) the nervous system and (b) the gonads.
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