Frog (tadpole)
In 1958, John Gurdon, then at Oxford University, explained that he had successfully cloned a frog. He did this by using intact nuclei from somatic cells from a Xenopus tadpole. This was an important extension of work of Briggs and King in 1952 on transplanting nuclei from embryonic blastula cells
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Famous quotes containing the word frog:
“An old pond—
a frog tumbles in—
the sound of water.”
—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)