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| Keywords: Complete cell lineage of C elegans.png en Complete cell lineage of C elegans The history of cellular divisions that sequentially tracks the parents of a particular cell up to its original ancestor the zygote cell is called cell lineage Simple organisms such as the C elegans worm tend to have a deterministic cell lineage meaning that for any given embryo the cells divide following exactly the same pattern More complex organisms tend to have a deterministic lineage only in the early stages of embryogenesis and then as large numbers of cells of similar type are required they tend to generate these cells by following non-deterministic although likely sterotypic patterns Studying the cell lineage of an organism is important because it helps in the understanding of how a particular cell defines its fate in the organism It also helps to understand how mutations and environmental factors may perturb the embryogenesis process and result in malformed organisms In the context of studying gene functionality the cell lineage also provides a baseline layer upon which the behavior of genes can be laid out across space and time as the organism develops https //cfwebprod sandia gov/cfdocs/CCIM/docs/VDA2008CellLineage pdf Integration of Information and Volume Visualization pdf file Andrej Cedilnika Jeffrey Baumesb Luis Ibanezb Sean Megasonc and Brian Wylied 2008 PD-USGov Information visualization Tree diagrams Caenorhabditis elegans Developmental biology Cell differentiation | ||||
