Dorsal-ventral patterning within the ectoderm of the Drosophila embryo requires seven zygotic genes including sog (short gastrulation). Sog is expressed in the ventrolateral region of the embryo that gives rise to the nerve cord.
Biology explores the interconnectedness of all living things and the environment. Through learning in biology, students discover that life involves interactions at all levels of organisation: cells interact with their environment and with each other, so do organs, organisms and ecosystems.
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which works within a living system. A sub-discipline of biology, its focus is in how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. Given the size of the field, it is divided into, among others, animal physiology, plant physiology, cellular physiology, microbial physiology, bacterial physiology, and viral physiology. Central to an