Question 37

(Short Answer)

Indicate true (T) and false (F) statements below regarding the regenerative capacity of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Your answer would be a four-letter string composed of letters T and F only, e.g. TTTF.
( ) When the animal is starved, some of its cells are cannibalized by other cells.
( ) The differentiated cells in the animal's body are continually replaced.
( ) Even a single healthy cell can rescue a lethally irradiated animal from death.
( ) Only neoblasts are capable of rescuing a lethally irradiated animal from death.

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When starved, Schmidtea undergoes degr...

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