The Fact That Plants Can Be Cloned from Somatic Cells

question 21

Multiple Choice

The fact that plants can be cloned from somatic cells demonstrates that ________.

• A) differentiated cells retain all the genes of the zygote
• B) genes are lost during differentiation
• C) the differentiated state is normally very unstable
• D) differentiation does not occur in plants

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