Understanding development /
Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg turns into an adult organism, or a seed matures into a plant. However, the picture is much more complex than that: is it all genetically controlled or doe...
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- Englisch
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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Developmental biology is seemingly well understood, with development widely accepted as being a series of programmed changes through which an egg turns into an adult organism, or a seed matures into a plant. However, the picture is much more complex than that: is it all genetically controlled or does environment have an influence? Is the final adult stage the target of development and everything else just a build-up to that point? Are developmental strategies the same in plants as in animals? How do we consider development in single-celled organisms? In this concise, engaging volume, Alessandro Minelli, a leading developmental biologist, addresses these key questions. Using familiar examples and easy-to-follow arguments, he offers fresh alternatives to a number of preconceptions and stereotypes, awakening the reader to the disparity of developmental phenomena across all main branches of the tree of life.
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781108872287 (ebook)
- DOI:
- 10.1017/9781108872287
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Print version: 9781108836777
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