Biology 441, Spring 2013: Vocabulary

 

You should know the meaning of the following terms from the glossary of the textbook (pp. 587-602)

acrosomal reaction (acrosomal vesicle, acrosome)

allantois

amnion

amniotes

animal-vegetal axis

antero-posterior axis

archenteron

area opaca

axial structures

bilateral symmetry

blastocoel

blastocyst

blastoderm

blastodisc

blastomeres

blastopore

blastula

block to polyspermy (rapid, slow)

capacitation

cell adhesiveness

cell-cell interaction, cell-cell signaling

cell differentiation

cell-lineage restrictions

cell motility

chemoaffinity hypothesis

chondrocytes

cis-regulatory control region, modules

cleavage

clone

cloning

coding region

compaction

competence

condensation

control region

convergent extension

cortical granules

cortical rotation

cytoplasmic determinants

cytoplasmic localization

cytoskeleton

dedifferentiation

deep layer

delamination

dermatome

developmental biology

dorso-ventral axis

ectoderm

embryogenesis

embryology

embryonic ectoderm

embryonic endoderm

embryonic organizer

embryonic stem cells

endoderm

epiblast

epiboly

epidermis

epigenetic

epimorphosis

epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

evaginate

extra-embryonic ectoderm

extra-embryonic membranes

cell fate; fate map

fertilization membrane

gametes

gastrula

gastrulation

gene knock-in

germ cells

germ layers

haploid cells

Hensen's node

hindbrain

hox genes

induction

ingression

inner cell mass

in situ hybridization

Instructive induction

intracellular signaling

invagination

involution

lateral plate mesoderm

left-right asymmetry

limb buds

cell lineage

macromeres

medio-lateral axis

meiosis

mesenchyme

mesenchyme-to-epithelium transition

mesoderm

micromeres

mid-blastula transition

mitosis

morphallaxis

morphogen

morphogenesis

morula

mosaic development

mytoblast

myotome

neural crest cells

nurons

neurula

neurulation

neural folds

Nieuwkoop center

notochord

oocyte

oogenesis

organizer

organogenesis

osteoblasts

outer enveloping layer

paraxial mesoderm

pattern formation

phylotypic stage

pluripotent

pluteus

polar bodies

positional information, positional value

prepattern

pre-somitic mesoderm

primitive streak

primordial germ cells

promoter

pronucleus

proximo-distal axis

radial cleavage

reaction-diffusion mechanisms

regeneration

regulation

sclerotome

segmentation

Situs inversus

somites

Spemann organizer (or Spemann-Mangold organizer)

sphere stage

spiral cleavage

stem cell

syncytium

transcription factor

transdetermination

trisomy

trophectoderm

vegetal region, vegetal pole

vertebral column

visceral endoderm

vitelline membrane

Wnt proteins

yolk sac

yolk cyncytial layer

zona pellucida

zygote

 

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