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#Question id: 7093


The activation of zygotic hunchback expression by Bicoid protein illustrates what principle in the establishment of positional information in embryos?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. the mother can influence development through the packaging of materials into the egg
  2. a gradient of a protein can activate a gene in a discrete region of an embryo through a threshold effect
  3. the identity of segments in the embryo is a reflection of their position in the embryo
  4. genes are activated or repressed by the binding of transcription factors to their regulatory regions