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#Question id: 7098


The role of maternal factors (such as Vg-1, Xwnt-1, and VegT) packaged into the vegetal region of the Xenopus oocyte is:

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. in establishing the future dorso-ventral body axis.
  2. to allow the vegetal region to divide during cleavage.
  3. to make the vegetal region denser, so that the egg always floats with its animal pole upward.
  4. to specify the future animal-vegetal body axis.