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| Daughter cells that form as a result of asymmetric cell division may differ in |
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| size, shape and protein composition |
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| In mammalian development, which of the following is in the correct chronological order of events? |
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| zygote, 4-cell, compacted morula, blastocyst |
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| in the mouse embryo, pluripotent stem cells are found in the |
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| Which of the following genes are expressed exclusively in cultured pluripotent embryonic stem cells? |
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| Fully differentiated mouse fibroblasts can be reprogrammed or induced to form pluripotent stem cells when transfected with retroviral vectors expressing |
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| Dolly, the famous sheep, was cloned using |
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| somatic cell nuclear transfer. |
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| In the Drosophila ovary, which of the following proteins is secreted from the cap cell and is responsible for creating and maintaining the niche for germ-line stem cells? |
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| Which of the following is false regarding the stem cells located in the epithelium lining of the small intestine? |
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| Lgr5 encodes the R-spondin protein. |
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| Which of the following is located in the cell lineage that gives rise to T cells? |
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| pluripotent hematopoetic stem cell |
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| Floral meristems give rise to |
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| The mating projection or Shmoo in budding yeast cells relies on having |
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| Cdc42 recruited and localized to the region near the highest concentration of mating pheromone, formin proteins to nucleate the assembly of actin filaments, myosin V to move secretory vesicles to the plus (+) end of the microfilaments |
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| Even before the first cell division, the one-cell C. elegans zygote has an asymmetric distribution of |
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| Par2 in the cortex of the posterior half of the cell. |
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| In C. elegans, which of the following is located in the lineage that gives rise to germ cells? |
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| The apical-basolateral polarity of epithelial cells depends on which one of the following? |
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| the interaction between nectin and and JAM-A |
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| Which is the correct combination of proteins in polarized cells involved in planar-cell polarity? |
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| Flamingo-Strabismus on one side and Dishevelled-Frizzled on the other |
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| Which of the following is a feature that defines a cell dying in response to tissue damage (necrosis)? |
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| Which of the following genes encodes a caspase in C. elegans? |
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| Which of the following apoptotic proteins is homologous to human Bcl-2? |
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| Which of the following forms a dimer that gets displaced from the surface of the mitochondria by EGL-1? |
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| Which of the following triggers apoptosis? |
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