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DEV3011 - Experimental developmental biology and disease modelling - S1 2026

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Question 1:  Staging the mouse embryo [2 marks].

Mouse embryos are often staged based on day of

embryogenesis, In mice, “E” = Embryonic days, and “

dpc” means

days

postcoitum

. Using the images on page 37 of your DEV3011 Practical Manual, what

developmental stage (age) is your embryo? What features of your embryo have led

to this conclusion?         

                                                         

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TASK 2. Staging zebrafish embryos

Question 2.   

Staging zebrafish

embryos or larvae. [

3 marks]

You have a series of dishes containing zebrafish embryos or larvae at three different developmental stages. For each dish compare the embryos to the staging series images (see lab practical manual staging series ). Through this comparison and by counting the somite number, determine the stage of fishes in each dish. 

[3 marks; 1 mark per dish]

 

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Task 1: Anatomy of Zebrafish embryos 

Observe the basic anatomy of the zebrafish embryos, using the dish containing the fish at 4dpf (dpf = days post-fertilisation).  

Question 1.  Zebrafish embryos. [7 marks.]

Take a photograph of the embryo provided. 

Photographs can be uploaded onto Moodle. On your drawing or photograph clearly label and mark the following structures: 

  • Eye
  • Pectoral fin 
  • Yolk
  • Spinal chord 
  • Tail fin 
  • Otic vesicle (Hint: Look up "optic vesicle" online) 

(7 marks; 1 mark for the image, 6 marks for the labelling).

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Question 6 and  7

Q6. Why do planarians have such remarkable powers of regeneration?

Q7. What value could they be in biomedical research?

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Question 5 

Cutting the planarian has a visible effect upon the colouration of the two halves of the animal. This takes about 10 minutes to become apparent.

What is this effect?

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Question 3 

“Reporter worms”.

 An example of a fluorescent reporter C. elegans

worm will be available for viewing.

a) What is the fluorescent reporter gene being used in this worm ?

b) Where in the worm is this reporter gene active?

c) What is the name of the gene it is reporting?

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Question 1. [ 5 marks]

Fill in the table below, matching the worm # with the correct genotype, based on the phenotype that you observe. 

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Which is the ligand in the image below (A, B ,C or D)?

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How is the interaction among two population of cells below best described?

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Wingless is the fly homologue of the vertebrate WNT genes. What role does wingless have in fly segmentation?
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