Question

A 1955 study of this process by Townes and Holtfreter demonstrated that it can happen spontaneously to minimize free energy in the differential adhesion hypothesis. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process controlled in one organism by dpp and inhibited by Sog. During this process, the marginal zone undergoes convergent extension and involutes the blastoral lip.
ANSWER: gastrulation [accept short gastrulation; prompt on morphogenesis or embryogenesis or embryonic development]
[10e] Dpp and Sog control dorsal-axis formation in this model insect popularized by Thomas Hunt Morgan.
ANSWER: fruit fly [or Drosophila melanogaster or D. melanogaster]
[10h] Anterior–posterior axis patterning in Drosophila is determined by maternal effect genes like this protein that patterns the head and thorax with Hunchback. The first discovered morphogen was this protein, which when mutated causes a lethal phenotype in which the insect develops a longer abdomen instead of its head.
ANSWER: Bicoid [or bcd; accept homeotic protein bicoid]
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Florida AValencia A010010
Florida State AUCF B010010
Florida BUCF C010010
Michigan ACarnegie Mellon A1010020
Carnegie Mellon BMichigan C010010
Ohio State BMichigan D010010
Michigan StateMichigan B010010
Ohio State ACase Western A010010
DukeLiberty A10101030
South CarolinaLiberty B1010020
William & MaryUNC B010010
Virginia Tech AUNC C1010020
Virginia AUNC D010010
Liberty CWake Forest010010
Chicago BIllinois B1010020
Illinois AChicago C1010020
Chicago DChicago A010010
MissouriIllinois C010010
WashU AIndiana B1010020
Indiana AWashU B010010
CarletonIowa State010010
Minnesota BWinona State010010
Wisconsin AWisconsin B1010020
Case Western BKenyon010010
BUBrandeis A010010
Harvard ABrandeis B010010
Harvard BDartmouth A010010
Brown ATufts A1010020
MIT AUMass Boston10101030
Northwestern BGeorgetown A010010
Notre Dame CNotre Dame B010010
PurdueIowa1010020
Stanford BNorthwestern A010010
UW BAlberta010010
UBCUW A1010020
Texas BASU010010
TAMUTexas A010010
Georgia Tech ATennessee A10101030
Georgia Tech CLouisville A1010020
Georgia Tech BVanderbilt A010010
Alabama ABruin A010010
NYU ACornell B010010
George Washington AHaverford B010010
John Jay CollegeColumbia C010010
Maryland AJohns Hopkins A010010
NYU BGeorge Washington B010010
Penn BHaverford A1010020
Rutgers APenn A0101020
Vassar AMaryland B010010
Yale AColumbia B1010020
Cornell CBinghamton A1010020
RIT ACornell D010010
RIT BESF A0000