Genetics - HOX genes (1 Viewer)

[tempco]

How much detail is required when learning about HOX genes? I know gene cascades are important, and that HOX genes provide evolutionary relationships between early organisms and other more complex organisms. Is there anything else I need to know?

 

[psycho_mushy]

no..... I think a brief outline of what they are would be fine.....

 

[catwoman_xo]

my teacher said that you need to know what some of the HOX genes control

9=shoulder
10=upper arm
11=lower arm
12=wrist
13=hand and fingers

i don't know if she just said that we need to know them or if it is actually part of the sylubus

 

[tempco]

Originally posted by catwoman_xo
9=shoulder
10=upper arm
11=lower arm
12=wrist
13=hand and fingers

That's the gene cascade part of it, right? I don't have a specific example on it, just a brief outline of the role HOX genes play in it... might just learn an example just in case.

 

[*~Dazed~*]

what topic is this for? cause i have NEVER heard of this

 

[babydoll_]

option: genetics - the code broken

 

[*~Dazed~*]

ohhhh phew!!!!! sorry i didnt notice the "genetics" up there... i just thought that maybe we learn about it in blueprint.. phew thanks!

 

[ReaveR]

pffffft what the hell i can't find it in the syll and i just went through it today.....

Edit: Oh, homologue genes. Ok didn't learn any of that in class, and I didn't find it in textbook either

 

[Bboymot]

lmao what does hox stand for?

 

[Survivor39]

Homeobox genes. And you don't need to know it unless you do the Genetics Option.