Chapter 21: The Genetic Basis of Development

1. List the animals used as models for developmental biology research and provide a rationale for their choice.

2. Describe how genomic equivalence was determined for plants and animals.

3. Describe what kinds of changes occur to the genome during differentiation.

4. Describe the general process by which “Dolly” was cloned.

5. Describe the molecular process for determination.

6. Describe the two sources of information that instructs a ell to express genes at the appropriate time.

7. Describe how homeotic genes serve to identify parts of the developing organism.

8. Provide evidence of the conservation of homebox sequences.