Adult Cell Cloning
Adult cell cloning is the most advanced technique, creating an exact clone of a specific adult animal.
Which cell is the nucleus taken from in adult cell cloning?
What is Adult Cell Cloning?
"Adult cell cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer) is a laboratory technique for creating a clone of an adult animal."
What is cloning?
Which method can be used to clone plants quickly and economically?
In adult cell cloning, where is the genetic information taken from?
The Dolly Process
The nucleus is removed from an unfertilised egg cell.
A nucleus from an adult body cell (e.g. skin) is inserted into the empty egg.
An electric shock stimulates the egg to divide and form an embryo.
Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be successfully cloned this way in 1996.
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