Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Animals come in many different shapes and sizes. How did all of these diverse body plans evolve? In this video, Dennis Sun describes how a group of similar genes, called Hox genes, are involved in setting up different kinds of body plans in crustaceans.
Dennis is a PhD student in the lab of Nipam Patel at UC Berkeley.
Learn more in the full post on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2017/02/03/Hox-genes-and-the-evolution-of-animal-body-plans
Written, drawn, and narrated by Dennis Sun. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.
Animals come in many different shapes and sizes. How did all of these diverse body plans evolve? In this video, Dennis Sun describes how a group of similar genes, called Hox genes, are involved in setting up different kinds of body plans in crustaceans.
Dennis is a PhD student in the lab of Nipam Patel at UC Berkeley.
Learn more in the full post on sciencesketches.org: sciencesketches.org/single-post/2017/02/03/Hox-genes-and-the-evolution-of-animal-body-plans
Written, drawn, and narrated by Dennis Sun. Edited and produced by Lisa Dennison.
