Cloning

Question 0

What is a cutting?

Answer 0

Cutting a part of a plant and planting it to produce identical copies of the parent plant.

Question 1

How are plants cloned?

Answer 1

Through either cuttings or tissue culture.

Question 2

What is tissue culture?

Answer 2

Where plant cells are grown using hormones into new plants which are identical to the parent plant.

Question 3

How are animals cloned?

Answer 3

Through either embryo transplants or adult cell cloning.

Question 4

What is an embryo transplant?

Answer 4

Artificially fertilising an egg and taking the embryo, that has divided many times, and implanting them in a mother before they become specialised.

Question 5

What is adult cell cloning?

Answer 5

Removing the nucleus of an unfertilised egg and a complete set of chromosomes from an adult body cell. Then placing the chromosomes inside the empty egg and giving it a small electric shock before being implanted into a mother.

Question 6

Give a reason against cloning.

Answer 6

If a population is too closely related, a new disease could kill the entire population as there may be no allele giving a resistance to the disease.