5.4 Cloning

Question 1

Cloning

Answer 1

The production of an organism, genetically identical to another.

example being the dolly sheep
where the sheep that dolly was cloned from had a cell removed and its nucleus was fused with an egg cell of another sheep which had its nucleus removed and this egg cell was embedded into the uterus of a sheep

Question 2

Diploid nucleus

Answer 2

a nucleus that contains two sets of each chromosome
it is inserted into an enucleated egg cell during cloning

Question 3

Explants

Answer 3

small samples from a parent plant that are used for micro propagation

Question 4

Micro propagation

Answer 4

the multiplication of plants using tissue culture methods and can be used to produce large numbers of plants that are all genetically identical to one another
all with the desirable characteristics that the parent plant had

Question 5

Tissue culture

Answer 5

a method of growing living cells/tissue in a medium to produce cloned plants