Cloning

Question 1

What are the 4 types of cloning

Answer 1

Embryonic cloning
Adult cell cloning
Tissue culture
Plant cuttings

Question 2

How does plant cutting cloning work?

Answer 2

Take a plant, cut a section( diagonal to help the uptake in nutrients). Plant the cut , give it nutrients and hormones

Question 3

What is tissue culture cloning?

Answer 3

Take a plant, scrape cells off into the agar jelly in Petri dish. Give the cell hormones and nutrients. Can grow quickly and all year and a lot at once.

Question 4

Describe embryonic cloning.

Answer 4

Take embryo. Split into individual cells. Implant into 3 different uteruses. Put it into the womb of the surrogate mother

Question 5

Describe adult cell cloning.

Answer 5

Take egg from animal A (female). Remove nucleus. Take body cell from animal B. Fuze the empty cell and body cell with electricity. This egg is now the embryo. Put in surrogate mother which then has the baby as a clone

Question 6

What are issues surrounding cloning?

Answer 6

Gets you a reduced gene pool. Which means there are fewer different alleles in the population

Leads to age related disorders - arthritis

Could be used to preserve animals

Worry that humans could be cloned in the future.