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What do scientists know about how the growth of embryos is coordinated?

Asked by LostInParadise (31926points) June 1st, 2015

It just seems so extraordinary, even if you consider organisms as simple as a blade of grass or a starfish. How do cells know when and where to differentiate? What causes organs to grow in tandem? With all the work that has been done in biochemistry, there must be some clues, at least from a global perspective, as to how it all comes together.

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kritiper's avatar

Genetics, DNA, RNA. “Your magnetic ink.”

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

They make educated guesses, until they can actually reproduce something off their guess, then they never really do know that is ow it works.

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