If You Treat Unfertilized Frog Eggs with a Poison That

question 90

Multiple Choice

If you treat unfertilized frog eggs with a poison that prevents microtubules from forming and then fertilize the eggs with sperm,the first abnormal event you would notice would most likely be

• A) a failure of the cytoplasm to shift and expose the gray crescent.
• B) nuclear division but no cytoplasmic division.
• C) cytoplasmic division but no nuclear division.
• D) the formation of two cells,one of which lacks a nucleus.
• E) the formation of the gray crescent on the same side as sperm entry.

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