Sea Urchins and Sea Slugs

Amazing new technologies in developmental biology and genetics research are allowing scientists to begin to answer long standing questions such as – how does a single fertilized egg cell transform into a complex animal? Why does the embryo of a marine organism like a sea slug develop differently from that of a sea urchin? Join Scripps Developmental Biologist Deirdre Lyons as she describes how she and her colleagues are pushing the limits of our knowledge to understand these intriguing questions and the long history and diversity of life on our planet. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 37915]

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Sea Urchins and Sea Slugs is an episode from Perspectives on Ocean Science (Audio) by UCTV.

This episode is 00:51:24 long.

This episode was published on Jun 3, 2022.

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