Cloning Flashcards

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How does the cloning process work?

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  1. Egg from one organism is enucleated
  2. Mammary cells from a second organism are collected and plated
  3. The mammary cells are placed in a medium without proper nutrients (starved)
  4. The mammary cells go into interphase
  5. The nucleus is taken from a mammary cell and inserted into the enucleated cell
  6. The new cell is given an electric shock and it starts dividing
  7. The cell mass is put into a surrogate organism
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What is the breakthrough that was made in March 2009?

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The first mammal cloning happened, Dolly the sheep was created.

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Why doesn’t reproductive cloning work well?

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  • There isn’t an ethical way to do it just yet
  • It should be possible to get this type of human cloning to work.
  • Will result in huge numbers of miscarriages, stillborn babies, babies with birth defects, and so on.
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