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a) A newly fertilized embryo with dispersed P granules. b) P granules are partitioned to the posterior cortex by the time of pronuclear meeting. c) After the first division, P granules are present only in the smaller, posterior blastomere, P1. d) Another unequal division gives rise to a single cell, P2, containing P granules. e) When the L1 larva hatches, P granules are localized to the primordial germ cells, Z2 and Z3. |