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A sheep 'Dolly' was born in Scotland by cloning techinque on 5th July 1996. Nucleus from the udder cell of sheep of ' Finn Dorset ' variety had been introduced into enucleated ovum of Scottish sheep. Then , the ovum was allowed to develop in the uterus of Scottish sheep and thereby 'Dolly' had been born. It was showing the charcters as per the chromosomes in nucleus and any character of Scottish sheep was not visible.
Explain the meaning of the word enucleated ovum .

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Enucleated ovum means to remove nucleus of cell, and the cell loses all its genetic information.
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