The Experiments of Briggs and King Showed That

question 99

Multiple Choice

The experiments of Briggs and King showed that

• A) mature frog cells are totipotent.
• B) the cytoplasm can alter the fate of nuclei from embryonic cells.
• C) genetic information is lost from cells during determination.
• D) nuclei cannot be used to clone animals.
• E) animals have greater developmental plasticity than plants.

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Setups

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High-low Method

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