6.4 Cloning

Question 1

What is a clone?

Answer 1

An individual genetically identical to the parent

Question 2

Is it more difficult to clone animals or to clone plants?

Answer 2

Animals

Question 3

How can plant clones be made more expensively?

Answer 3

By tissue culture

Question 4

What is tissue culture?

Answer 4

Taking small groups of cells from part of a plant and growing them under special conditions

Question 5

What is the quick, cheap way of cloning plants?

Answer 5

By taking cuttings and growing them

Question 6

How are animals clones?

Answer 6

By using embryo transplants

Question 7

How does embryo transplanting work?

Answer 7

An embryo with unspecialised cells is split into smaller groups of cells. Each group of genetically identical cells is transplanted and allowed to develop in a host animal

Question 8

Why is it more difficult to clone animals than plants?

Answer 8

Because it is more complicated and takes longer for the clones to develop