How is the DNA interpreted when a fetus is forming?

Subject: How is the DNA interpreted when a fetus is forming?

Date: Sat Aug 28 18:00:43 1999
Posted by Noam
Grade level: 10-12 School: No school entered.
City: Jerusalem State/Province: No state entered. Country: Israel
Area of science: Development
ID: 935877643.Dv

Message:


When I think of DNA I think of a big chalkboard full of arrows and 
illustrations of how the baby should look in the end. How are these 
instructions actually INREPRETED into the forming of a baby. Since there 
isn't a controlling organ in chrage of creating the fetus (that I know of) 
how do the cells know how much to divide and to which sections?

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