early dev2
Across
- 3. term for division of cells in the early embryo
- 4. 16- to 64-cell stage, looks like a mulberry
- 5. protein that suppresses caudal protein translation
- 9. avian egg type
- 11. epidermal tissue induced by this signaling molecule family (acronym)
- 14. BMP inhibitor
- 19. gene needed for head formation
- 21. major structural characteristic of amniote gastrulation (2 words)
- 25. formed by infolding of ventral mesoderm cells (2 words)
- 26. protein that localizes β-catenin to future dorsal surface
- 27. blastomeres form a compact ball of cells
- 28. initiate Xenopus blastopore involution (2 words)
- 29. point where cell division slows and embryo genes are expressed (acronym)
- 30. plays an essential role in patterning the vertebrate embryo
- 33. central cavity in a ball of cells
- 34. transcription factor central to development, activated by Wnt pathway
- 37. balancing organs, modified wings
- 38. multinucleate cell produced by mitosis without cytokinesis
- 39. cells located here involute into embryo (acronym)
Down
- 1. ____ genes are expressed in broad overlapping domains
- 2. transcription factor that expresses eomesodermin
- 3. production of a blastocoel in mammalian morula
- 6. female germ cell
- 7. responsible for anterior-posterior patterning, along with FGFs and RA (acronym)
- 8. cleavage-stage cells
- 10. cells that will form the notochord
- 12. embryonic segments
- 13. protein that dorsalizes Drosophila embyro
- 15. maternal effect gene expressed in anterior of Drosophila embryo
- 16. _____ membranes separate from the embryo that enable it to survive in the egg or uterus
- 17. derived from external cells in mammalian cleavage
- 18. embryo forms only from this layer of cells
- 20. process that forms embryonic germ layers
- 22. transcription factor needed for organizer protein expression
- 23. a narrow tunnel in the eggshell for fertilization
- 24. site where amphibian gastrulation starts (2 words)
- 31. ventral cells that will form the trunk of the Drosophila embryo (2 words)
- 32. nuclei and surrounding cytoplasm before cellularization
- 35. binds to Dorsal
- 36. receptor for gurken