Re: Some species of starfish can regenerate from 1 arm.

Date: Tue May 2 16:12:40 2000
Posted By: John Franklin Rawls, graduate student, Developmental Biology, Washington University
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 956772304.Zo

Message:


Two organisms are clones if they are genetically identical.  Since the 
regenerating starfish arm does not change its genetic code while it 
regenerates, it remains identical to the rest fo the starfish and can be 
called a clone of the original starfish.

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