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The Eyeless Gene in Fruit Flies, Small Eye Gene in Mice

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The eyeless gene in fruit flies, Small eye gene in mice, and Aniridia gene in humans have high homology in DNA sequence and their mutations result in defects in eye development. Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with this observation?


A) The same genes in distantly related organisms can shape similar developmental pathways.
B) The eyes of insects and mammals must have evolved independently during evolution.
C) A common pathway underlies eye development in all three organisms.
D) All three genes evolved from a common ancestral sequence.

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