You Are Studying the Development of a Poorly-Understood Species at the 8-Cell

question 60

Multiple Choice

You are studying the development of a poorly-understood species at the 8-cell stage.You use a laser to zap away a certain one of the eight cells,and discover that part of the gut is missing once the embryos finish development.Your colleague,who is working on a different species,uses the laser to blast away one of the cells in her embryos,zapping each of the possible cells in a set of eight experiments.However,when the embryos finish development,every one is perfectly normal! What can you conclude about the two species?

• A)The first species has regulative development,the second has nonregulative development.
• B)The first species has nonregulative development,the second has regulative development.
• C)Both species have regulative development.
• D)Both species have nonregulative development.

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