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Genetics 466 Fall 2008 Sean Carroll PROBLEM SET #7 (lectures 32-34) 1. Understand the following terms regarding the evolution of animal form. homeotic segmentation gene complex homology cluster duplication Hox zones serial homology cephalochordate forelimb Urbilateria tetrapod coordinate systems homolog genetic toolkit paralog Pax-6 ortholog lobopodian cis-regulatory element pleiotropy melanism albinism onychophoran Cambrian explosion 2. Many vertebrate Hox genes resemble each other in sequence as well as insect Hox genes. Describe an experiment that would test whether certain vertebrate Hox genes are more similar to one particular insect Hox gene than to other insect Hox genes. 3. The tinman gene controls heart formation in flies and a homologous family of genes controls heart formation in vertebrates. What are two alternative explanations for the similar roles of similar genes in these vastly different animals? 4. You have cloned a newly discovered gene, called Bucky, from a badger. a) How would you find out if this gene exists in other animals? b) You discover one copy of the Bucky gene in a sponge, a sea urchin, and an earthworm and four copies in a chicken and six copies in a gorilla. Explain the evolutionary history of this gene in light of metazoan phylogeny. Draw a diagram mapping the evolution of gene number onto a tree of these animals. 5. Some insects have a long proboscis for drinking nectar, others have a pointed proboscis for piercing prey and sucking the juices out of them. All developing probosci express the pb Hox gene. How would you explain the morphological diversity of these structures? 6. A human patient presents with polydactyly, six fingers on each hand. Why is this likely to be a regulatory mutation and not due to a change in a protein? 7. Why do some toolkit genes contain multiple cis-regulatory elements? 8. Can you imagine ways in which Arthropods acquired different segment numbers and appendages? 1 Genetics 466 Fall 2008 Sean Carroll 9. Butterflies have two pairs of wings (forewing and hindwing) and occasionally a specimen is found where one part of a hindwing resembles a forewing. Sometimes both hindwings resemble a forewing. Can you explain the two cases? 2