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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Three protein-coding genes are found in bithorax complex: 

Ultrabithorax (Ubx)

Abdominal A (abdA) 

Abdominal B (AbdB) 

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Ultrabithorax (Ubx), is required for the identity of the third thoracic segment.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

one of Antennapedia’s functions is to repress the genes that would trigger antenna and eye development.

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when flies have a mutation wherein the Antennapedia gene is expressed in the head (as well as in the thorax), legs rather than antennae grow out of the head sockets

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

In the recessive mutant of Antennapedia, the gene fails to be expressed in the second thoracic segment, and antennae sprout in the leg positions

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Dictyostelia (social amoebas) solitary haploid amoebae live on decaying logs, eating bacteria and reproducing by binary fission.