Explain why axis-determination is a crucial aspect of embryonic development. Explain how maternal-effect genes encode cytoplasmic factors that play a role in axis determination.
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- Explain why axis-determination is a crucial aspect of embryonic development.
- Explain how maternal-effect genes encode cytoplasmic factors that play a role in axis determination.
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- Explain how maternal-effect genes encode cytoplasmic factors that play a role in axis determination.Discuss how the anterior portion of the anteroposterior axis is established in Drosophila. What aspects of oogenesis are critical in establishing this axis? What do you think would happen if the bicoid mRNA was not trapped at the anterior end but instead diffused freely throughout the oocyte?Name three possible factors contributing to early asymmetries in a developing embryo (i.e. what are the kinds of things early on that lead to the development of the body axes - dn, a/p, l/r, etc)? In the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster, the anterior-to-posterior body axis becomes segmented into distinct regions. explain the role of the genes bicoid and nanos in this process.
- Describe the inheritance pattern of maternal effect genes. Explainhow the maternal effect occurs at the molecular and cellular level.What are the expected functional roles of the proteins that areencoded by maternal effect genes?Discuss the role of homeotic genes in development. Explain what happens to the phenotype of a fruit fly when a gain-of-function mutation in a homeotic gene causes the protein to be expressed in an abnormal region of the embryo. What are the consequences of a loss-of-function mutation in such a gene?Explain hoxA3 and HoxD3 genes are nearly equivalent yet they play distinct roles in the development of mouse.
- Describe the formation steps of the primary axis that first occurs during development in Drosophila by explaining each molecule.Discuss the role of par genes in generating anterior/posterior polarity in the C. elegans embryo.Define the term maternal effect genes, and explain why the protein products of some of these genes are called morphogens.
- In flies, the gap gene kruppel is expressed in a broad band in the middle of the embryo with giant expressed as its anterior border and knirps at its posterior border. How is the expression of kruppel limited to this band in the embryo? Describe the spatial regulation of the kruppel gene.A C. elegans (nematode) gene called par-1 helps todetermine the AP axis of the animal early in development. Scientists determined that par-1 is pleiotropic—it also has a later function in forming the vulva of theadult animal. How could researchers circumvent thelethality of par-1− mutants to observe the later function of the par-1 gene? (Hint: C. elegans larvae caneat bacteria expressing RNAi for any gene.)Another way to study the role of proteins (e.g., transcription factors) that function in development is to microinject the mRNA that encodes a protein, or the purified protein itself, into an oocyte or embryo, and then determine how this affects the subsequent development of the embryo, larva, and adult. For example, if Bicoid protein is injected into the posterior region of an oocyte, the resulting embryo will develop into a larva that has anterior structures at both ends. Based on your understanding of the function of each developmental gene, what would be the predicted phenotype if the following proteins or mRNAs were injected into normal oocytes? A. Nanos mRNA injected into the anterior end of an oocyte B. Antp protein injected into the posterior end of an embryo C. Toll mRNA injected into the dorsal side of an early embryo