Question: You are a young researcher at the National Institute Health. You are very interested in eye development, and hoping to find a cure to blindness in your lifetime. Your gene of interest is named alien. In the literature, alien has be reported to have the following function:
1. alien is required for DNA synthesis and mitosis
2. alien might be required for normal eye and bristle development,
You particular interested how alien can affect eye development and require for DNA synthesis. Of the following model system, what kind of studies can be accomplished? Explain your answer fully.
1. E. coli
2. Yeast
3. Drosophila
4. Mouse
5. C. elegans