Wednesday, April 30, 2008

What is Animal Cloning?

Identical twins are natural clones with the same genetic material. Scientists can produce clones without having identical twins by transfering the nucleus.The nucleus of a somatic cell is placed in an egg whose nucleus has already been removed. Then the egg is implanted into a female to continue its development.



1. somatic- body cell






http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtd021034.html








1 comment:

Emilie said...

Wierd... There aren't nearly as many steps to cloning as I thought there were! The whole process is pretty cool, but it still kind of freeks me out!