Absence of Bicoid MRNA from a Drosophila Egg Leads to the Absence

question 8

Multiple Choice

Absence of bicoid mRNA from a Drosophila egg leads to the absence of anterior larval body parts and mirror-image duplication of posterior parts. This is evidence that the product of the bicoid gene ________.

• A) normally leads to formation of head structures
• B) normally leads to formation of tail structures
• C) is transcribed in the early embryo
• D) is a protein present in all head structures

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