Question 7

(Multiple Choice)

In Drosophila,the wild-type eye color is red.A mutation,vermilion,causes vermilion-colored eyes,unless there is a mutation in another gene,suv,which,when homozygous or hemizygous,results in eyes that are the wild-type red even in the presence of the vermilion mutation.This is an example of


A)forward mutation.
B)reverse mutation.
C)intragenic suppression.
D)intergenic suppression.
E)back mutation.

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