There are protein-coding genes which are the kind of lego building blocks of the body, and regulatory regions which direct where these building blocks should go
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What is the "easiest" genetic way for organisms to evolve differences in their bodies? Can a single mutation effect only one difference, or multiple? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218314933?dgcid=author …pic.twitter.com/6KpJzijC5W
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The argument is that each protein is used all over the place, which is why it is very hard to pinpoint one behavior = one gene. But the regulatory regions are much more specific (THIS region brings THIS protein to THIS place)
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This article shows how this can break down - for instance, mutations in the genome can delete the portion between two regulatory regions fusing them into "one" region - and now mutations will affect TWO things at once https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221831131X …
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