What Was the Experimental Purpose of the Preliminary Genetic Screening

question 23

Multiple Choice

What was the experimental purpose of the preliminary genetic screening performed in which Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus exposed adult fruit flies to treatments that would cause mutations in their offspring?

• A)to evaluate the mutagenic properties of varied treatments
• B)to discover the bicoid gene
• C)to generate two-tailed fruit-fly embryos
• D)to identify fruit flies with mutations in genes that control fruit-fly development

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