(Solved): The arimal cap of a Xenopos blastula can be cut off from the embryo using a surgical technique show ...

The arimal cap of a Xenopos blastula can be cut off from the embryo using a surgical technique shown in the figure below. Isolated animal cap explants can be cultured and assayed for their differentiation in a later developmental stage. Typically, the isolated animal cap would differentiate into the epidermis. However, when cels, of the animal cap are dissoclated, they differentlate into neurons in the culture. Answer the two following ouestiond. 1: If the same surgery is caried out on a gastrula, what tissue type wil the animal cap exglant differentiate into? (2 points) Why? (3 points) 2: Based on what you have learned about how ectooerm chooses between the neuronal and epidermal fates in vertebrate embryos, please offer a testable hypothesis to explain the difference in the developmental fates of the dissociated and undissociated animal cap explants (5 points), and then design an experiment to test your hyothesis i5 points).