Nurturing Life Sciences
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Blood consists of a protein-rich fluid known as plasma, in which suspended cellular elements are: white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
The mechanism for “bottom-up” specification of germ layers of the frog embryo resides in a set of mRNAs that are tethered to the vegetal cortex
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The mRNA for the transcription factor VegT, which becomes apportioned to the vegetal cells during cleavage. VegT is critical in generating both the endodermal and mesodermal lineages.
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One of the genes activated by VegT protein encodes the Sox17 transcription factor.
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Sox17
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Another set of early genes activated by VegT encodes Nodal paracrine factors that instruct the cell layers above them to become mesoderm