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.