The development of a multicellular organism involves the generation of many different cell types from a single-celled fertilized egg. An understanding of the molecular mechanisms that cause cells to become different from one another is a fundamental goal of developmental biology. One organism well suited for the study of this problem at the level of single cells and individual cell divisions is the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Fixsen et al. (1985) studied this question.