Explain how an understanding of cell lineages in Caenorhabditis elegans aids in the identification of mutations that affect the timing of developmental changes.
Explain how an understanding of cell lineages in Caenorhabditis elegans aids in the identification of mutations that affect the timing of developmental changes.
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Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode that has two sexual forms a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite and a male. Development takes place in the egg and continues till four larval stages to the adult.
Cell lineage indicates the growth history of a tissue or organ from the fertilized embryo. Cell lineage is formed on the tracking of the organism’s cellular progenitors due to the cell division and rearrangement as time progresses. Cell lineage begins with the origin of cells and finishes with a cell that gets mature and is no longer able to divide.
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