Teaching MPPSC Assistant Professor Mock Test Series 2025 Life Sciences Developmental Biology Morphogenesis and organogenesis in plants
Homeotic selector genes are responsible for the specification of Drosophila body parts. Which one of the following identities would you expect if the ultrabithorax gene is deleted?
1
The third thoracic segment is transformed to another second thoracic segment and a fly with four wings.
2
The third thoracic segment develops halteres.
3
The second thoracic segment loses wings.
4
. The first and second thoracic segments fuse and wings are formed on the third thoracic segment.