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Chapter 20.1, Problem 2CC
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To determine: The way in which human finger formation will be affected if apoptosis did not occur.
Introduction: Positional information contains information about the location of the cell with respect to other cells of the body. The cell responds to this positional information through cell division, cell migration, cell differentiation and cell death. This step is important so that an organism develops the correct morphological features and patterns.
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