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In Drosophila, Absence of Bicoid Protein Results in Larvae Missing

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In Drosophila, absence of Bicoid protein results in larvae missing anterior segments and absence of Nanos protein results in larvae missing posterior segments. Suppose you inject Nanos protein into the anterior region of early embryos lacking Bicoid. The expected result would be:


A) larvae like bicoid mutants.
B) larvae like nanos mutants.
C) larvae with two anterior regions.
D) larvae with two posterior regions.
E) None of the answer options is correct.

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