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What will happen I you cut planaria into small fragments ?

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(i) Planaria can be cut into any number of pieces and each piece gives rise to a complete organism .
(ii) The ability of the lost parts of an individual organism to give rise to a whole new organism is called regeneration .
(iii) It takes place by specialized mass of cells e.g., Hydra and planaria .
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