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Q: how do cells know whether to become ...

Randal R. Ketchem ketchemr at scripps.edu
Sun Feb 9 16:53:33 EST 1997


Van Dung Ly (vanly at cse.unsw.EDU.AU) wrote:

>My Question:
>When a mammalian female's egg gets fertilized by a sperm and cell division
>takes place, do we know how cells come to know where they are (relative
>to each other) so that some become eg. kidney cells, brain cells, muscle
>cells, nerve cells etc. ?

Get "Developmental Biology", Scott F. Gilbert. At least that is the text I
had when I took the course. Or go to your campus bookstore and look in the
Biology textbook section for the develpomental biology text used there.

Randy




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