Question

Which of the following statements about how fruit flies can develop an eye in the middle of a leg is true? (a) When the Ey gene is expressed in adult leg cells, these cells de-differentiate and become eye cells. (b) The Ey gene encodes a transcription regulator that is the only transcription regulator used to produce a fruit-fly eye. (c) When the Ey gene is introduced into cells that would normally give rise to a leg, the transcription regulators used to control its expression in the leg are different from those that are normally used to control Ey expression in the eye. (d) All the eye cells found in the adult leg are a single cell type and have identical characteristics

Answer 1

Fruit flies develop eye in the middle of a leg (c) When Ey gene is introduced into cells that would normally give rise to a leg, transcription regulators used to control its expression in leg are different from that of Ey expression in the eye.

What is transcription?

Process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA is called transcription. The segments of DNA transcribed in RNA molecules that encode proteins produce mRNA. Other segments of DNA are copied in RNA molecules which is called non-coding RNAs. mRNA comprises of only 1–3% of the total RNA samples.

The goal of transcription is to make RNA copy of a DNA sequence of gene and for protein-coding gene,  RNA transcript carries information needed to build a polypeptide.

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