Biology Topic Practice

Animal Cloning: Embryo Transplants

Embryo transplants allow farmers to produce many high-quality offspring from their best livestock.

At what stage of development is the embryo split into pieces?

What is Animal Cloning: Embryo Transplants?

"Embryo transplant is a method of animal cloning that involves splitting an early-stage embryo into multiple identical copies."

Question 1

What is cloning?

Question 2

Which method can be used to clone plants quickly and economically?

Question 3

In adult cell cloning, where is the genetic information taken from?

Cloning Livestock

Fertilise an egg from a top-quality cow with sperm from a top-quality bull.

Allow the embryo to develop until it is a ball of cells.

Split the embryo into several separate embryos and insert them into surrogate mothers.

Exam Tip

All the resulting calves will be genetically identical to each other, but not the parents.

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