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#Question id: 5137


Match the correct animal and their mechanism of germplasm specification.

Animal

Specification of germ cells

a. Drosophila

i. germplasm is characterized by polar granules and PIE-1 protein, and segregates into P4 during cleavage 

b. Xenopus                                                

ii. germplasm localized in vegetal region of egg

c. mammals

iii. germplasm specified by oskar at posterior end of egg

d. c. elegans

iv. Have no germplasm

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i

  2. a-iv, b-ii, c-I, d-iii

  3. a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i

  4. a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv