A Researcher Working with Developing Fruit Flies Wants to Produce

question 205

Multiple Choice

A researcher working with developing fruit flies wants to produce a fly without gametes.Which element should be targeted for destruction in the early embryo prior to gastrulation in order to achieve this?

• A) Pole plasm
• B) The group of nuclei at the anterior pole of the egg
• C) Ectoderm
• D) Anterior-most cells of the blastoderm
• E) Ventral cytoplasm of the syncytium

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