Cloning

Question 1

How does the cloning process work?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is the breakthrough that was made in March 2009?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Why doesn’t reproductive cloning work well?

Answer 3

• 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.