When You Slice Up a Pie That Contains a Swirled

question 22

Multiple Choice

When you slice up a pie that contains a swirled mixture of chocolate and vanilla filling, you notice that some slices have more chocolate than vanilla and that other slices have more vanilla than chocolate. This uneven distribution of chocolate and vanilla is most like the uneven distribution of

• A) nuclei in a zygote.
• B) nuclei in an early embryo.
• C) nuclei in an egg prior to fertilization.
• D) cytoplasmic determinants in a newly formed zygote.
• E) cytoplasmic determinants in a baby just prior to birth.

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