Biology · Boston College
Developmental Biology is the discipline that studies the processes by which a single cell, the fertilized egg, divides, differentiates, and progressively gives rise to a complex organism formed by billions of cells with highly specialized functions. This process fascinated Aristotle over 2,300 years ago and continues to be the source of some of the most challenging questions in Biology. Given that their DNA is identical, how do your muscle cells and neurons acquire their complex phenotypes? What signals are integrated so that a small cluster of relatively homogeneous cells gives rise to a limb
