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When was the first experimental evidence provided for axonal outgrowth and motility?(a) 1907(b) 1807(c) 1847(d) 1947I got this question by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.Question is from Non-muscle Motility topic in chapter Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility of Cell Biology

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Correct CHOICE is (a) 1907

The explanation is: Ross Harrison of Yale UNIVERSITY performed a classic experiment in 1907 by culturing a piece of tissue from a frog’s developing nervous system. He cultured it in a TINY drop of lymphatic FLUID and OBSERVED that the axons grew by a process of active outgrowth and elongation.



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