If a gene is affected by many regulatory enhancers, what would be an important e

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If a gene is affected by many regulatory enhancers, what would be an important evolutionary implication?

There is no current experimental data that would indicate evolution in the regulatory enhancers.

b.

A single gene can have numerous regulatory enhancers associated with it, but these regulators can only produce small variations in gene expression.

c.

The primary control point at which gene expression is regulated is initiation of translation, so transcription enhancers do not play a significant role.

d.

The enhancers can increase morphological variation and hence the amount of variation that natural selection has to act on.

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d. The enhancers can increase morphological variation and hence the amount of variation that natural selection has to act on.

Let me explain , a single gene may have many regulatory enhancers associated with gene and they can opertae independentaly each of them on that gene. iand offcourse a gene controled by many set of regulatory gene enhanceros would be expressed differently in different part of body at different time period. this regulators there by increase variation in phenotype that is morphology variation and hence the amount of variation that natural selection has to act on.

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