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Chapter 18, Problem 30P
The Drosophila even-skipped (eve) gene has four different enhancers that control its transcription in a pattern of seven stripes. (One of them—the stripe 2 enhancer—is shown in Fig. 18.23c on p. 616.)
| a. | Why is the stripe 2 enhancer active only in cells corresponding to stripe 2? |
| b. | The other three enhancers each work in the cells corresponding to two different (nonadjacent) stripes. How is this possible? |
| c. | Secondary pair-rule genes like ftz have only one enhancer that is active in all seven stripes. How is this possible? Describe an experiment that would have led scientists to this conclusion. |
| d. | Would you expect the segment polarity gene engrailed to have one enhancers or 14 enhancers, one active in each stripe? |
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