There cannot be any doubt that in both of these cases, it is the possibility of a rearrangement of protoplasm, offered by the turning over, which allows the isolated blastomere to develop as a whole.
Driesch and Oscar Hertwig held that the peculiar development of a given blastomere is a result of its relation to the remainder of the cell-mass, an outcome of the action upon it by the whole system of cells of which it is a part.
The punctured blastomere remained inactive, but the other developed into a complete half embryo.
In 1888 Roux of Breslau by puncturing one blastomere of a frog's egg in the two-cell stage killed the punctured blastomerewithout affecting the other.
Chun found that the isolated blastomere of the first cell division produced a half-larva, possessing only four instead of the eight locomotor plates of the normal animal.
But those who assume heterogeneous determinants do not thereby exclude what truth there may be in this view that what an early blastomere does is a function of its inter-relations.
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