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What Will Happen If a Researcher, Working with Developing Amphibians

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What will happen if a researcher, working with developing amphibians, transplants a piece of ectoderm destined to become the epidermis (outer layer of skin) from one early gastrula to a location destined to be neural tissue in another early gastrula? What will happen if the transplant is made between late gastrulas?


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