Important Terms

totipotency

determination

egg-polarity gene

morphogen

segmentation gene

gap gene

pair-rule gene

segment-polarity gene

homeotic gene

homeobox

Antennapedia complex

bithorax complex

homeotic complex (HOM-C)

Hox gene

apoptosis

caspase

656

antigen

autoimmune disease

humoral immunity

B cell

antibody

T cell

cellular immunity

T-cell receptor

major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen

theory of clonal selection

primary immune response

memory cell

secondary immune response

somatic recombination

junctional diversity

somatic hypermutation