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Exam Questions | Ch4 – Laying Down The Vertebrate Body Plan:

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 01

01) The amphibian egg is radially symmetric along the animal-vegetal axis. What “breaks” this symmetry?

a. Localization of maternal RNAs to the vegetal pole

b. Fertilization

c. Localization of maternal RNAs to the animal pole

d. Cleavage

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 02

02) Removing the ventral blastomeres from a four-cell amphibian embryo gives rise to an embryo lacking which tissue?

a. Notochord

b. Neural tube

c. Somites

d. Gut

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 03

03) What is the dorsal vegetal region that induces the Spemann-Mangold organizer in an amphibian embryo?

a. Animal cap

b. Nieuwkoop center

c. Marginal zone

d. Vegetal center

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 04

04) Which of the options given would not be an expected way of forcing premature onset of the mid-blastula transition?

a. Injecting extra DNA into the egg

b. Injecting extra cytoplasm into the egg

c. Forcing two sperm to enter the egg

d. Removing some cytoplasm from the egg

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 05

05) Which of the following does not send signals that directly induce and pattern the mesoderm?

a. Vegetal blastomeres

b. Animal blastomeres

c. Dorsal mesoderm

d. Ventral mesoderm

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 06

06) Which of the following is not true of the role of BMPs in mesoderm patterning?

a. Overexpression of BMPs ventralizes the embryo

b. Introduction of a dominant-negative BMP receptor ventralizes the embryo.

c. BMP function is inhibited by organizer signals

d. BMPs are signaling ligands that bind to cell-surface receptors on target cells.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 07

07) Which of the following is the only structure induced If one performs the organizer transplantation experiment with a blastopore lip from a late stage gastrula?

a. Head

b. Trunk

c. Tail

d. Brain

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 08

08) Which of the following is not a secreted organizer protein?

a. Chordin

b. Noggin

c. Follistatin

d. BMP

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 09

09) Transplanting a piece of anterior mesoderm to the blastocoel of a host frog embryo will induce which of the following structures?

a. Head

b. Trunk

c. Tail

d. Spinal cord

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 - Question 10

10) In the zebrafish embryo, what is the equivalent of the Xenopus organizer?

a. Shield

b. Node

c. Blastopore lip

d. Plate

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Created Date:
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Chapter 4 Laying Down The Vertebrate Body Plan: Xenopus And Zebrafish
Author:
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