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#Question id: 7158


If the nerve supply to a newt limb is severed before amputation, how will this affect regeneration?

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. It will have no effect, since regeneration involves growth of new muscle, bone, and connective tissue.
  2. Regeneration of most tissues will occur normally, but regeneration of the nerves will not occur.
  3. Outgrowth will occur, but the identity of the limb will be lost and normal proximo-distal patterning will not occur.
  4. A blastema will form but will not grow, and regeneration will fail.