Early geneticists and developmental biologists attributed the function of determining wing development and body axis formation to the 'wingless' gene based on observed phenotypic differences between wild-type Drosophila and those with mutations at the wingless locus, as documented by Sharma (1973).

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  The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems

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• The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press via serper

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• mutation concept