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Question 1

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Homozygous mutations of PAX6 in humans cause Aniridia
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  • True
  • False

Question 2

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what is at the vegetal pole of xenopus oocytes
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  • Veg-1
  • yolk
  • Most mRNA's
  • ribosomes
  • tRNA's

Question 3

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What is the cortical reaction?
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  • a block to polyspermy in the sea urchin
  • The sperm penetrating through the egg membrane
  • Activation of the egg once sperm has enters

Question 4

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What is the correct order of the life cycle of embryo development to adult
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  • zygote->cleavage->gastrulation-> neurulation ->organogenesis->metamorphosis->adult
  • zygote->cleavage->gastrulation-> organogenesis->neurulation->metamorphosis->adult
  • zygote->cleavage->gastrulation-> neurulation ->metamorphosis->organogenesis->adult
  • zygote->cleavage-> neurulation->gastrulation ->organogenesis->metamorphosis->adult

Question 5

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Which of the following apply the the PAX6 gene in drosophila
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  • Paired gene
  • chromosome 11
  • Gap gene
  • chromosome 2

Question 6

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Genes can change activity during development
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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which of the following are cleavage patterns
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  • Holoblastic
  • Meroblastic
  • Superlateral
  • All of these

Question 8

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Sperm entry to the egg triggers Mg2+ release which acts on cell cycle proteins and initiates cleavage
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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What does mesoderm give rise to?
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  • Cartilage
  • Muscle
  • Bone
  • Dermis
  • Kidney
  • Blood
  • Gut tissue
  • epidermis
  • Nervous system

Question 10

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What does ectoderm turn into
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  • Epidermis
  • Nervous system
  • Gut tissue
  • Bone
  • Cartilage
  • Muscle

Question 11

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C.elegans has no hedgehog signalling
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Which of these apply to the mutagenesis technique?
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  • Random gene is altered
  • specific gene is altered
  • Males treated with mutagen and crossed with wild-type females
  • Females treated with mutagen and crossed with wild-type males
  • recombinant DNA technology

Question 13

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Which of these apply to the transgenesis technique?
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  • Random gene is altered
  • specific gene is altered
  • gain of function of gene
  • loss of function of gene
  • recombinant DNA technology

Question 14

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Which of these apply to the mutagenesis technique?
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  • Random gene is altered
  • specific gene is altered
  • Males treated with mutagen and crossed with wild-type females
  • Females treated with mutagen and crossed with wild-type males

Question 15

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Which organisms is mutagenesis a suitable gene
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  • Fly and zebrafish
  • worm, Fly and zebrafish
  • zebrafish
  • mouse, worm, Fly and zebrafish

Question 16

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commitment is not shown by a fate map
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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Regulative development is shown by models from the following scientists
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  • Driesh- sea urchin
  • Roux- frog
  • Both of these

Question 18

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Which of the following applies to regulative development?
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  • damage to cells early on in development does not result in a defective organism
  • damage to cells early on in development results in a defective organism
  • Cells determined early on
  • non-autonomous development

Question 19

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most type of development is mosaic
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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which of the following apply to the bicoid mRNA
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  • highest concentration at posterior end
  • Maternal affect gene
  • transcription factor
  • mutant larva lack thoracic segments

Question 21

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The french flag model is a model for mosaic development
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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Which experiment(s) is used to demonstrate competence?
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  • xenopus cap assay
  • Amphibian organiser
  • Both of these

Question 23

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How many somites die in the C.elegans embryo
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  • none
  • 5
  • 72
  • 131
  • 896

Question 24

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Which of the following are properties of an ideal marker?
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  • non toxic
  • leaks so all cells have the marker
  • Inherited by all progeny of the labelled cells
  • visible at later stages

Question 25

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Which of the following are properties of an ideal marker?
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  • non toxic
  • leaks so all cells have the marker
  • Inherited by all progeny of the labelled cells
  • visible at later stages

Question 26

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Which of the following are examples of markers
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  • cytological markers
  • vital dyes
  • high molecular weight tracers
  • all of these

Question 27

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MyoD is sufficient and required for muscle development
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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Which term is this definition for? - over expression of transcription unit, it is a gain of function mutation
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  • amorph
  • hypomorph
  • hypermorph
  • Antimorph

Question 29

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In the Brachyury gene in the mouse, a homozygous mutation results in?
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  • short tail
  • embryonic lethal

Question 30

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which organism(s) are unsuitable for mutagenesis and a mutagenesis screen
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  • frog and chick
  • chick
  • frog, chick and bacteria
  • frog, chick and mouse

Question 31

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Different mutations in the same gene is called and allelic series
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  • True
  • False

Question 32

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In complementation testing, if two genes complement each other they ...
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  • are alleles of the same gene, so lie in the same chromosome
  • do not lie in the same chromosome

Question 33

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what are epistasis experiments used for?
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  • working out the order of gene action in a pathway
  • working out which genes are in a pathway
  • working out if mutations are on the same or different genes
  • working out the genotype of a mutant

Question 34

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The drosophila gene 'white' is required for the development of white eyes
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  • True
  • False

Question 35

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which of the following are defects from kit and steel mutations?
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  • Anaemia
  • coat pigmentation
  • embryonic lethal
  • short tail

Question 36

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There are two classes of segment polarity genes; hedgehog-like and patched-like. Which genes belong to the hedge-hog like?
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  • Hh
  • Smo
  • Wg
  • all of these

Question 37

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The body plan along the embryo is controlled by Hox genes along the DV axis
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  • True
  • False

Question 38

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which of the following maternal effect gene(s) are in the ventralised class?
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  • Dorsal
  • Spatzle
  • Toll
  • cactus

Question 39

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what does local application of FGF4 after removal of AER results in..
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  • no effect
  • limb development- radius and ulna fully developed but only partial digit development
  • limb development- but only partial development
  • limb development- Digits fully developed but radius and ulna only partially developed

Question 40

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Length of time spent in AER determines cell fate according to position over proximal distal axis.
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  • True
  • False

Question 41

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In proneural clusters, one cells becomes a neuroblast (primary fate), whilst the other cells become the secondary fate which is..
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  • epidemermis
  • neurons
  • fibroblasts
  • mesenchyme

Question 42

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The proneural cluster gives rise to a neuroblast through lateral inhibition of which receptor and ligand pair?
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  • Kit and steel
  • Delta and Notch
  • FGF and FGFR
  • Delta and steel

Question 43

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Most forms of Anchondroplasia come from mutations in which FGF gene?
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  • FGF2
  • FGF3
  • FGF4
  • FGF5
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