Regenerating Planarian

This report will present the regenerating planarian. Planarians are tiny flatworms that live in freshwater. Planum means flat, which is how they got their name planarians. These teeny worms are generally hard to find considering how small they are. In fact, these creatures range from the size of 3 to 12 millimeters. Planarians are categorized as scavengers, they eat the decaying parts of dead animals. They have a tub where they are able to capture food and eat, which is called a pharynx. The Planarians are crossed eyed, these eyes are able to detect light in which planarians dislike. Planarians love to glide on their cilia. Cilia are little hairs that mostly surrounded on the bottom of the planarian. These animals have been able to regenerate because they are mostly made of stem cells. Planarians are examples of asexual reproduction. This means that planarians are able to reproduce without sex. This is why planarians are best to be used as examples for this lab. In this report, it is shown how planarians are able to regenerate. This study was performed in views of how the stem cells worked. Thomas Hunt Morgan did a report just like this one using planarians. He was never able to figure out the experiment. All he was able to see was the growth of the planarians but was never able to see how the stem cells worked. Morgan used this experiment to begin his studies of inheritance. The lab shows that three planarians will be used, they will also be split in half . The partners will examine the planarians and see how they are able to regenerate. The hypothesis that was shown was that the planarians will grow into
Through the lab, the results went as expected. The data could have been more descriptive. Most of the planarians were mostly active, but by the end, the planarians had recovered. It was interesting to see how they would grow back. The hypothesis was correct, but the things went as