Hammerling's Experiment

Question 1

What type of cell did they use?

Answer 1

•Single-Celled organism - Acetabularia - chosen because the cells have a particular shape

Question 2

What they did in the experiment?

Answer 2

• Cut the cells of two different kinds of Acetabularia in half
• Part of the cell died, other part regenerated into a whole new cell

Question 3

Concluded

Answer 3

•information needed to regenerate in ‘foot’ - nucleus