During the 1950s, Robert Briggs and Thomas King performed pioneering studies of development using nuclear transfer of frog embryos. Which of the following was not one of the conclusions that could be drawn from their studies?
A) The nuclei of early frog embryos retain the genetic potential for totipotency.
B) The cytoplasmic environment around a nucleus can modify its fate.
C) Information is lost from the nuclei of cells during the early stages of development.
D) There is a principle of genomic equivalence.
E) All of the above were conclusions of the studies.

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Briggs and King's studies did not suggest that information is lost from the nuclei of cells during early stages of development. Instead, their experiments supported the principles of genomic equivalence, totipotency, and the influence of the cytoplasmic environment on cell fate.

During the 1950s, Robert Briggs and Thomas King Performed Pioneering