December 23, 2024

Infographic: How Tadpoles Use Glucose to Fuel Tail Regrowth

Tadpole tails restore when lost (1 ). In this study, researchers found that to do so, tadpoles increase the production of genes for proteins that shuttle bus glucose into the cell (2 ). The cells use fatty acids to build more cell membrane, and nucleotides to construct more DNA as cells quickly divide and increase their numbers.