You Are Interested in Studying a Receptor and Decide to Make

question 5

Multiple Choice

You are interested in studying a receptor and decide to make a knockout mouse. However, you notice severe developmental defects that result in embryonic lethality in this receptor knockout. Which developmental process is most likely affected when you disrupt a receptor on the cell surface, disrupting its ability to receive a signal and initiate a transduction pathway?

• A) cell proliferation
• B) cell-cell interactions
• C) cell differentiation
• D) cell movement
• E) apoptosis

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