Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• State what is meant by the ‘Hox hypothesis’
• List the main events of gastrulation
• Indicate what trophoblast cells are
• Distinguish between cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts
• Recall what foetal organs are
• Define ‘implantation’
• Explain how variations are created
• Distinguish between modularity and molecular parsimony
• Define ‘evolution’
• List the different types of variations
• Discuss the different developmental constraints
• Summarise selectable epigenetic variation