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The Making Of A Scientist

Question
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What research did Ebright do during his senior year in high school? What did he discover?

Solution

In his senior year in high school, Ebright took a step ahead in his advanced experiments on the monarch pupa. He cultured cells from a monarch butterfly's wing and showed that the cells would divide and develop into normal butterfly wing scales only if they were fed the hormone from the gold spots. His project won first place for zoology at the International Fair.