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which is programmed cell death. This makes C. elegans a model organism for studying cell lineage, and being able to observe the cell divisions due to their transparent phenotype.

History of cell lineage

One of the first studies of cell lineages took place in the 1870s by Whitman, who studied cleavage patterns in leeches and small invertebrates. He found that some groups, such

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