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#Question id: 5807

Which of the following would be an example of a germline mutation?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Exposure to excessive UV radiation causes changes in the DNA of a skin cell, leading to basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer).
In a very early human embryo, a mistake in mitosis causes loss of a Y chromosome in one daughter cell. The resulting child is a fertile male who is chromosomally partially male (XY) and partially female with Turner's syndrome (XO).
A man with normal chromosomes has a hip X-ray without a protective shield. Ten months later, his wife gives birth to a child with a chromosomal deletion.
An embryo missing one copy of the third chromosome is miscarried very early in pregnancy.

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#Question id: 28335

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Gap genes regulate the transcription of pair-rule genes, which are responsible to___

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#Question id: 28336

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following gene has the ability to divide the embryo into 14-segment-wide units, establishing the periodicity of the embryo?

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#Question id: 28337

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following is not the Gap gene?

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#Question id: 28338

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following is not the primary Pair-rule genes

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#Question id: 28339

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following is not the secondary Pair-rule genes

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#Question id: 28340

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Which of the following gene is specify the characteristic structures of each segment?