Which structure gives rise to the brain and spinal cord?

a. primitive streak
b. neural tube
c. notochord
d. pharyngeal arches
e. somites


ANSWER: b

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A) It would be an integral membrane protein with its functional domain on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. B) It would be an integral membrane protein with its functional domain on the lumen side of the membrane. C) It would be on the exterior of the Golgi. D) It would be in the lumen of the Golgi.

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