Explain/Teach these Concepts to a Friend

• Draw the morphological stages of B. subtilis sporulation.
• Explain how a chromosome is segregated into the forespore.
• Explain how ?F is activated in the forespore even though it is synthesized before asymmetric division.
• Explain how the forespore becomes topologically isolated from the mother cell.
• Explain why the forespore can be likened to a germ cell and the mother cell to a somatic cell.

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