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Question 0

What makes embryology unique?

Answer 0

1. ) Embryology dictates whether an organism survives in life (foundation).
2. ) Embryology studies the starting point.
3. ) Understanding of function is better upon understanding of embryology.

Question 1

State the Central Paradox of Life.

Answer 1

How is it that a single fertilized egg van give tise to a complex, multicellular organism?

Question 2

Study of the embryo, from zygote to state resembling sexually mature individual.

Answer 2

Embryology

Question 3

Steps in embryonic development.

Answer 3

Cleavage, gastrulation, neurulation, organogenesis, histogenesis

Question 4

What is histogenesis?

Answer 4

Differentiation and specialization of cells.

Question 5

Study of heredity and transmission of traits from parents to offspring.

Answer 5

Genetics

Question 6

Embryology + postnatal development

Answer 6

Developmental biology

Question 7

Developmental Genetics is

Answer 7

Study of the effects of genes/heredity to the development of an organism, translation from genotype to phenotype.

Question 8

Importance of embryology.

Answer 8

1. ) foundation of modern science
2. ) accounts for unity in diversity
3. ) appreciation and better understanding of higher forms of biology
4. ) major courses in biology
5. ) answers questions on what makes animals unique

Question 9

Neoplastic growth

Answer 9

Abnormal proliferation of cells

Question 10

Tissue repair

Answer 10

Repair of tissues from molecular to organismic level

Question 11

Metamorphosis

Answer 11

Process by which an animal transitions from larvae to adult

Question 12

Regeneration

Answer 12

Regrowth of body parts from pieces of an organism

Question 13

Genetic mechanisms involved in the development of an organism

Answer 13

developmental genetics