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Shape of Life: Genetics: How Genes Direct Development

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All the cells in all animals have a complete set of genes with the instructions for building an organism. Working with mutations in fruit flies, scientists have found a group of regulatory genes called Hox genes that signal other genes in sequence to build the body of an animal. All animals except sponges have Hox genes. [6:04]

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