A treatment for some forms of anemia is to take a drug that turns on transcription of fetal hemoglobin.This would increase the proportion of _____ globin chains.
A)alpha
B)gamma
C)delta
D)epsilon

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Fetal hemoglobin contains gamma globin chains, while adult hemoglobin contains alpha and beta globin chains. Therefore, increasing transcription of fetal hemoglobin would increase the proportion of gamma globin chains.

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