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9780121983901

Laboratory Exercises in Developmental Biology (Spiral)

by Cruz, Yolanda P.
  • ISBN13:

    9780121983901

  • ISBN10:

    0121983900

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9780121983901

  • Additional ISBN(s):

    9780323137775

  • Edition: Spiral
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-06-01
  • Publisher: Academic Pr

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Summary

This intensive manual provides students with valuable information and insights into animal development at the organismal, cellular, and subcellular levels. The book uses both descriptive and investigative approaches that emphasize techniques, key experiments, and data analysis. Key Features * Provides a broad introductory view of developmental systems * Teaches both classical embryology and modern experimental approaches * Contains seventeen laboratory exercises, written in step-by-step style * Organized with additional notes to students and preparators * Lists questions and references for each exercise * Special chapters give introductions to the scientific process, use of the microscope, and the writing of scientific papers * Illustrated with detailed line drawings

Table of Contents

Preface
Background
Fertilization in the Sea Urchin
Early Development in the Sea Urchin and Starfish
Early Development in the Frog: To Neurulation
Early Development in the Frog: To 10 Millimeters
Preventing Axis Formation in Amphibians with Ultraviolet Irradiation
Early Chick Development: To 48 Hours
Early Chick Development: To 96 Hours
Chick Development in a Windowed Egg
Ethyl Alcohol, Caffeine, and Chick Development
Totipotency of the Unincubated Chick Blastoderm
Cardia Bifida in the Chick
Tadpoles and Thyroxine
Blastomere Totipotency in the Two-Cell Mouse Embryo
Alizarin Staining
Drosophila Polytene Chromosomes
Induction of Chromosome Puffing with Heat Shock
Drosophila Imaginal Discs and Ecdysone
Index
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