Sperry's experiments on eye-rotation in frogs led to an influential hypothesis that explains how growth cones find their way to their targets: the
A) radial glial hypothesis.
B) cell-adhesion hypothesis.
C) chemoaffinity hypothesis.
D) growth cone hypothesis.
E) CAM hypothesis.

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Sperry's experiments on eye-rotation in frogs led to the development of the chemoaffinity hypothesis, which suggests that there are molecules in both the growth cone and target cells that help guide axons to their correct targets based on chemical signals.

Sperry's Experiments on Eye-Rotation in Frogs Led to an Influential