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growth and development of organisms
- In regeneration: Polarity and gradient theory
Each living thing exhibits polarity, one example of which is the differentiation of an organism into a head, or forward part, and a tail, or hind part. Regenerating parts are no exception; they exhibit polarity by always growing in a distal direction (away…
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- In Charles Manning Child
…zoologist who developed the axial gradient theory of regeneration and development, a physiological explanation of the ordered re-creation of animal parts following an injury.
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