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Understanding Development / Alessandro Minelli.

Por: Series Understanding Life SerEditor: Cambridge : University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2021Fecha de copyright: ©2021Descripción: 1 online resource (206 pages)Tipo de contenido:
  • text
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  • computer
Tipo de soporte:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781108865500
Tema(s): Género/Forma: Formatos físicos adicionales: Print version:: Understanding DevelopmentClasificación CDD:
  • 571.8
Clasificación LoC:
  • QH491 .M564 2021
Contenidos:
1. Defining Development, if Possible -- 2. Cells and Development -- 3. Development as the History of the Individual -- 4. Revisiting the Embryo -- 5. Developmental Sequences: Sustainability versus Adaptation -- 6. Genes and Development -- 7. Emerging Form -- 8. The Ecology of Development -- Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Common Misunderstandings -- Classification -- References and Further Reading -- Index.
Resumen: 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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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. Defining Development, if Possible -- 2. Cells and Development -- 3. Development as the History of the Individual -- 4. Revisiting the Embryo -- 5. Developmental Sequences: Sustainability versus Adaptation -- 6. Genes and Development -- 7. Emerging Form -- 8. The Ecology of Development -- Concluding Remarks -- Summary of Common Misunderstandings -- Classification -- References and Further Reading -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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As with most basic principles biologists learn, the standard story of the development of an organism from fertilization to reproduction is necessarily a simplification of what actually happens. In his new book, Minelli (emer., Univ. of Padua) reminds readers just how varied and complicated the process of development can be. For instance, although people usually think of development in terms of multicellularity, single-celled organisms can be seen to undergo a developmental pathway. Developmental progressions are often perceived as being one-way journeys, but Minelli points out that some processes are reversible. Furthermore, even though people use much of the same terminology across kingdoms, developmental processes in animals, plants, and fungi are very different. Most important, Minelli argues, there is a wide variety of life histories across the tree of life. The familiar model of embryological development is just that--a jumping-off point for understanding the life cycle of any particular species. Having recently coauthored, with Giuseppe Fusco, an innovative treatise on reproduction (The Biology of Reproduction, CH, May'20, 57-2946), Minelli here addresses all these issues and more. The text assumes a basic acquaintance with evolution, genetics, and embryology and is at once well written, entertaining, and loaded with fascinating examples of organisms that defy expectations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. --John L. Hunt, University of Arkansas--Monticello
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