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55 355 Embryology
Course
Description:
An
amazing diversity of strategies are employed throughout the plant and
animal kingdoms to build, to organize and to grow tissues, organs, and
bodies. Despite the various environmental niches inhabited, and
the various morphologies that result, recent work has revealed that many
of the genetic and mechanical means employed to achieve growth and
change are shared in animals as diverse as flies and human. By the
end of this course you will come to understand how a body plan is
established; how the mechanisms that give rise form are used by very
different organisms to achieve similar ends; and how genetic networks
have evolved a modularity that permits them to be employed over and over
again throughout both evolution and development. We will try to
investigate these phenomena by exploring them through the experimental,
observational, surgical, and genetics tools employed by scientists in
the field.
Lecture meetings: Section 01 8:30-9:50,
Tuesday, Thursday Odette 112
Section 02 1:00-2:20 Tuesday, Thursday Dillon Hall
Room: 264
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Mid-term Exam
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Final Exam 30% (tentative
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