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Pax-6 Is a Gene That Is Involved in Eye Formation

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Pax-6 is a gene that is involved in eye formation in many invertebrates,such as Drosophila.Pax-6 is also found in vertebrates.A Pax-6 gene from a mouse can be expressed in a fly,and the protein (PAX-6) leads to a compound fly eye.This information suggests which of the following?


A) Pax-6 genes are identical in nucleotide sequence.
B) PAX-6 proteins have identical amino acid sequences.
C) Pax-6 is highly conserved and shows shared evolutionary ancestry.
D) PAX-6 proteins are different for formation of different kinds of eyes.

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