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The Body Plan
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Welcome back to The Information Entropy Podcast! The body plan: how does your body know where to grow an arm? A nose? Or your legs? Find out here! Tom explores the homeobox genes and how stem cells are vital for growing into new body parts and the different kind of body plans that are exhibited in the animal kingdom. Meanwhile, Mitch takes us on a guided tour of the evolution of the body plan and asking whether it is a conserved or converged trait! Music: HOME – Above All
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