n. Carotenoids, for instance, are a large class of red, yellow and orange plant pigments composed of long carbon chains with many conjugated double bonds. They contain three maxima in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum (420 nm, 450 nm, 480 nm).

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

The SKN-1 protein is a maternally expressed transcription factor that controls the fate of the P1 blastomere(P1🡪EMS 🡪MS), that generates the posterior pharynx.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Embryos from homozygous skn-1-deficient mothers lack both pharyngeal mesoderm & endoderm derivatives of EMS.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

skn-1-deficient embryos make extra hypodermal (skin) & body wall tissue.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

PAL-1 activity is needed for the normal development of the somatic (but not the germline) descendants of the P2 blastomere, specifies muscle production.

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Embryos lacking PAL-1 have no somatic cell types derived from the C and D stem cells.

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PAL-1 is regulated by the MEX-3 protein, an RNA binding protein that inhibit the translation of pal-1 mRNA.