You are interested in studying a receptor and decide to make a knockout mouse. However, you notice severe developmental defects that result in embryonic lethality in this receptor knockout. Which developmental process is most likely affected when you disrupt a receptor on the cell surface, disrupting its ability to receive a signal and initiate a transduction pathway?
A) cell proliferation
B) cell-cell interactions
C) cell differentiation
D) cell movement
E) apoptosis

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Cell-cell interactions are crucial for proper development, and disrupting a receptor involved in these interactions can lead to severe developmental defects and embryonic lethality.

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