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the missing half by a peculiar process, related to regeneration, which 

 Roux designated as post-generation. Later studies showed that an 

 isolated blastomere is able to give rise to a complete embryo in many 

 other animals, sometimes developing in its earlier stages as though 



Fig. 185. Dwarf and double embryos of Amphioxus. 



A. Isolated blastomere of the two-cell stage segmenting like an entire egg (cf. Fig. 183, D). 

 B. Twin gastrulas from a single egg. C. Double cleavage resulting from the partial separation, 

 by shaking, of the blastomeres of the two-cell stage. D.E.F. Double gastrulas arising from such 

 terms as the last. 



still forming part of a complete embryo ("partial development"), 

 but in other cases developing directly into a complete dwarf embryo, 

 as if it were an egg of diminished size. In 1891 Driesch was able 

 to . follow out the development of isolated blastomeres of sea-urchin 



