Cloning

Question 1

How can you make animal clones?

Answer 1

Using embryo transplants or adult cell cloning

Question 2

How are plants cloned trough cuttings?

Answer 2

Cuttings are take from a parent plant

Cuttings are planted to produce identical copies

Question 3

What is good about plants being cloned from cuttings?

Answer 3

Quick and cheap process

Question 4

How can plants be cloned by tissue culture?

Answer 4

Plant cells put in growth medium with hormones

They grow into new plants

Question 5

What is good about cloning plants by tissue culture?

Answer 5

Quick
Little space needed
Grown all year

Question 6

What is an embryo transplant?

Answer 6

Sperm cell and egg cell taken
Sperm used to artificially fertilise egg cell
The embryo that develops splits many times
Embryos implanted into others
They will be genetically identical

Question 7

How does adult cell cloning work?

Answer 7

Take nucleus out of unfertilised egg cell
Take a full set of chromosomes from an adult body cell
Insert into egg cell
Electric shock
Embryo implanted

Question 8

What are issues surrounding cloning?

Answer 8

Reduced gene pool

Cloned animals might not be as healthy

Question 9

What does reduced gene pool mean?

Answer 9

Less different alleles in a population

Question 10

What are positives of cloning?

Answer 10

It can lead to a greater understanding of the development of an embryo
Help preserve endangered species

Question 11

How can plants be cloned?

Answer 11

From cuttings and by tissue culture