African clawed frog

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An African clawed frog

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African clawed frog (plural African clawed frogs)

  1. A clawed frog found in southern Africa, Xenopus laevis, that has some properties very useful for genetics.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 283:
      Heaven knows what led him to do it, but Hogben found that if you injected an African clawed frog with the urine of a pregnant woman, within hours it would lay eggs.

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