Chapter 11, Problem 9WIO

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The steps scientists might have used to clone extinct species of gastric brooding frog that swallows its eggs and broods its young within its stomach and to explain the importance of determination before the experiments that the great barred frog is a close relative to the gastric brooding frog.

Concept introduction:

A somatic cell is any cell in the body other than the two types of reproductive cells that are sperm and egg. Every somatic cell has two complete sets of chromosomes, whereas germ cells only have one complete set.