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#Question id: 5009


A genetic change that caused a certain Hox gene to be expressed along the tip of a vertebrate limb bud instead of farther back helped to make possible the evolution of the tetrapod limb. This type of change is illustrative of

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior
  1. the influence of environment on development.

  2. paedomorphosis.

  3. a change in a developmental gene or in its regulation that altered the spatial organization of body parts.

  4. heterochrony.