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#Question id: 7107


What would be the effect on the timing of somite formation, if a piece of the pre-somitic mesoderm of a chick embryo is rotated by 180° and reinserted in its original position?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. there would be no effect because the embryo would regulate and development would proceed normally
  2. antero-posterior development would be blocked at that point, and more posterior structures would fail to form
  3. the rotated mesoderm will reverse the gradient of somite formation, so that somite formation posterior to the rotated mesoderm will begin in the posterior and move forward to meet the previously formed somites
  4. the timing of somite formation will be reversed in the rotated block only, proceeding from posterior to anterior, but the rest of the somites will form in a normal fashion, proceeding from anterior to posterior