Proteins fold to their native conformations via directed pathways rather than stumbling on them through random conformational searches.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

The emerging column of cells topples over called ‘the slug’.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

The target gene of CO -FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Chromothripsis

entire chromosomes or large parts of chromosomes are shattered and stitched together, leading to dozens or sometimes even hundreds of rearrangements

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Underdominance, in which the heterozygote has lower fitness than both homozygotes.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Acrosomal enzymes (acrosin and MMP2) as well as the enzymes that help establish capacitation, are inhibited by zinc, the accumulation of zinc on the zona pellucida and in the surrounding cumulus form a “zinc shield” that prevents further sperm entry