GERM CELL SET-ASIDES. “Imagine a textbook entitled Developmental Biology that focuses entirely on plants, mentioning animals only for their peculiar way of making germ cells by setting aside a group of precursor cells early in the embryo. The converse has been, and still is, common practice.”
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