In the 1980s, biologists successfully transplanted the nucleus from a mammary gland cell of an adult sheep into an unfertilized egg of a second sheep, which after implantation in the uterus of a third sheep grew to become a fully complete baby lamb. What term best describes the growth potential of that nucleus?

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The growth potential of the nucleus extracted from the mammary gland cell of an adult sheep is totipotent because after transplantation into an unfertilized egg, it was able to form a fully complete baby lamb, indicating that it had the ability to differentiate into any type of cell and to give rise to a complete organism.

In the 1980s, Biologists Successfully Transplanted the Nucleus from a Mammary