BIOL 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-13: Soltyrei, Commensalism, Autotroph

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The function of a cell depends on its location along four body axes: time (organisms current stage of development, anterior to posterior (head to tail, ventral to dorsal (belly to back, left to right. Signals activate transcription factors to turn specific genes on/off, resulting in different cell function. Pattern formation: events that determine the spatial organization of an embryo. Progressive beginning with broad location on the axes (master regulators: process repeats as growth continues activating gene specifying what the cell becomes. Bicoid: regulatory transcription factor that determines location on anterior-posterior axis. Concentration gradient is important: high: head region, medium: medium, low: posterior region. Study: fruit flies had mutations causing disruption to normal anterior-posterior determination. Plants master regulator is a hormone: auxin; enters cells and triggers production of transcription factors. Morphogenes: molecules that provide spatial info during early embryonic development by a concentration gradient.

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