Scientists Are Attempting to Make a Chicken Look Like a Dinosaur

question 56

Multiple Choice

Scientists are attempting to make a chicken look like a dinosaur ("dino-chicken") by using drugs or proteins to turn on certain homeotic genes in somatic cells during the development of a chicken embryo. If the scientists are successful in creating both male and female "dino-chickens," and then the "dino-chickens" mate, what type of offspring would the two "dino-chickens" have?

• A) a male or female "dino-chicken"
• B) a male or female normal chicken
• C) You can't know for sure because of random fertilization.
• D) You can't know for sure because it depends on whether the modified homeotic genes are dominant or recessive.

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