#Question id: 7130
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
Hematopoietic stem cells can be isolated and grown in culture; if one wished to control their differentiation into either neutrophils or macrophages, what colony stimulating factors could be used?
#Question id: 7131
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
What is globin gene switching?
#Question id: 7132
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
What happens if you introduce the gene myoD into fibroblast cells growing in culture?
#Question id: 7133
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
In what way are mrf4, myoD, and the other muscle-inducing genes similar to the homeotic genes of Drosophila?
#Question id: 7134
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
What important lesson for the mechanisms of development can we derive from the ability to clone frogs by nuclear transfer?
#Question id: 7135
#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
Recently, it was reported that adult, differentiated cells can be made to behave as pluripotent stem cells by the introduction of a few genes, one of which was Oct4. What was the rationale for this experiment?