Animal Kingdom Question 17
Question: Syncytial epidermis occurs in:
Options:
A) Ascaris
B) Hydra
C) Taenia
D) Leucosolenia
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Answer:
Correct Answer: A
Solution:
In Ascaris embryology, there is no cellularization. Thus syncytial specification is a hybrid condition of the autonomous and conditional that occurs in Ascaris.
-Ascaris is a parasitic worm in humans which causes disease ascariasis in humans.
-They infect humans via the faecal-oral route, their egg hatches then penetrates the wall of the gastrointestinal tract of humans and enters the bloodstream.
-The maturation site of Ascaris in the small intestine of humans.
-Most of the insects like drosophila have characteristics of early nuclei shared in the cytoplasm.
-The morphogens typically functioning in the syncytial specification are transcription factors.