Cloning in Animals

Question 1

What is cloning?

Answer 1

Any procedure that produces genetically identical offsprings.

Question 2

A nucleus is taken from a ____ cell and is put into an _____ egg cell.

Answer 2

Body.
Enucleated.

Question 3

The cell is given an electric shock to help it divide by the cell division called ______.

Answer 3

Mitosis.

Question 4

The cells forms into an _____, and is placed into the ____ of a female.

Answer 4

Embryo.
Uterus.

Question 5

The female with the womb in cloning is called the _________.

Answer 5

Surrogate mother.

Question 6

What are 2 uses of cloning animals?

Answer 6

To produce blood clotting factors to treat haemophilia.

To produce proteins such as insulin along with genetic modification.

Question 7

What are 2 risks of cloning animals?

Answer 7

Cloned animals can have health issues.

Reducing the genetic diversity of a population which increases the risk of diseases or extinction.

Question 8

What are 2 differences between selective breeding and cloning?

Answer 8

Offsprings are not genetically identical for selective breeding, whereas offsprings are genetically identical to their biological mother in cloning.

Selective breeding is slower as it done for several generations to improve effectiveness, although cloning is faster compared to selective breeding.