Which developmental effect results when imaginal discs in Drosophila larvae are surgically transplanted to an adult abdomen?

💡 Explanation

When imaginal discs are transplanted, hormonal signaling determines their fate; exposure to metamorphosis hormones triggers differentiation based on their original larval specification, because the adult environment lacks the inhibitory factors present during larval stages, resulting in organ regeneration. Therefore organ regeneration results rather than cell death, immune response, or tumors as other tissues are already differentiated.

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