Volpe's Understanding Evolution 7th Edition by Peter Rosenbaum

Exercise 5

Mutations that are responsible for causing dramatic developmental transformations of body structure have been found in organisms as diverse of fruit flies to mice to humans. The "master" genes that are responsible for determining which parts of the body form what body parts are called:
A) Pseudogenes
B) Homeotic genes
C) Epistatic genes
D) Pleiotropic genes
E) Pseudoautosomal genes