How Are Tetrapod Limbs and Fish Fins Developmentally Similar

question 57

Multiple Choice

How are tetrapod limbs and fish fins developmentally similar?

• A) Both start out as buds bulging from body wall.
• B) Hox genes are used to produce both phenotypes.
• C) Both grow from ectodermal tissue when Hox gene expression ceases.
• D) a and b
• E) b and c

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