CLONING
There are a lot of interesting things about cloning. This is what I found this morning.
1. What is cloning?
Cloning means making a living thing from another living thing such as a plant or animal. The process uses the genes of the first so they both have identical DNA.
2. Can people be cloned?
announcement by an American company that it has created a human embryo clone is being viewed as both an incredible scientific achievement and a dangerous step. This is not the first time such a claim has been made.
3. The cloned cat
an in the US has paid $50,000 (£26,000) for Little Nicky, the first ever cat cloned to be someone's pet.
He looks just like any other nine-week old kitten, but Little Nicky was created from the DNA of another much-loved pet, also called Nicky.
The original cat died last year aged 17 and his owner Julie decided she'd rather have a clone than a new one.
Julie says the new Nicky is just like the old one, both in the way he looks and his personality. The world's first cloned cat has turned out very different from her mum, scientists have said. Copy Cat or Carbon Copy as she's also known, was born just over a year ago. Her genetic mum is Rainbow and their DNA is exactly the same. This means they should be exactly the same as each other.
4.The first pet cloned is a cat
Researchers in Texas have cloned a domestic cat, producing a two-month-old kitten called Copycat. The work is described in the scientific journal Nature and is the first time anyone has cloned a pet.
5. Is cloning right?
ning can be seen as lifesaving science. On the other hand it's often criticized for interfering with the creation of life.
6.What is the problem with cloning?
About 98% of cloning efforts fail. Usually a cloned embryo dies before birth but sometimes afterwards too. Most of the survivors have potentially fatal heart or lung problems or diseases like diabetes.
7.Why clone animals?
Animals or plants with special qualities could be mass produced to help in the manufacture of important drugs. You could replace pets which have died or even repopulate endangered or extinct species.
8.Does cloning work?
In 1997 Dolly the sheep became the first ever cloned mammal. Scientists in Scotland used a new type of technique. When Dolly was born months later,
It had taken 276 tries to get it right. Since Dolly cows, pigs, monkeys, rodents, cats, mules and horses have been cloned.
9.Isn’t it unnatural?
Cloning isn't new. Nature's been doing it for billions of years with plants. Things like potatoes and grass send out shoots which can grow into a whole new plant. If you grow a plant from a cutting it's a type of cloning. And identical twins are naturally-occurring clones of each other even though they're genetically different from their parents.
1. What is cloning?
Cloning means making a living thing from another living thing such as a plant or animal. The process uses the genes of the first so they both have identical DNA.
2. Can people be cloned?
announcement by an American company that it has created a human embryo clone is being viewed as both an incredible scientific achievement and a dangerous step. This is not the first time such a claim has been made.
3. The cloned cat
an in the US has paid $50,000 (£26,000) for Little Nicky, the first ever cat cloned to be someone's pet.
He looks just like any other nine-week old kitten, but Little Nicky was created from the DNA of another much-loved pet, also called Nicky.
The original cat died last year aged 17 and his owner Julie decided she'd rather have a clone than a new one.
Julie says the new Nicky is just like the old one, both in the way he looks and his personality. The world's first cloned cat has turned out very different from her mum, scientists have said. Copy Cat or Carbon Copy as she's also known, was born just over a year ago. Her genetic mum is Rainbow and their DNA is exactly the same. This means they should be exactly the same as each other.
4.The first pet cloned is a cat
Researchers in Texas have cloned a domestic cat, producing a two-month-old kitten called Copycat. The work is described in the scientific journal Nature and is the first time anyone has cloned a pet.
5. Is cloning right?
ning can be seen as lifesaving science. On the other hand it's often criticized for interfering with the creation of life.
6.What is the problem with cloning?
About 98% of cloning efforts fail. Usually a cloned embryo dies before birth but sometimes afterwards too. Most of the survivors have potentially fatal heart or lung problems or diseases like diabetes.
7.Why clone animals?
Animals or plants with special qualities could be mass produced to help in the manufacture of important drugs. You could replace pets which have died or even repopulate endangered or extinct species.
8.Does cloning work?
In 1997 Dolly the sheep became the first ever cloned mammal. Scientists in Scotland used a new type of technique. When Dolly was born months later,
It had taken 276 tries to get it right. Since Dolly cows, pigs, monkeys, rodents, cats, mules and horses have been cloned.
9.Isn’t it unnatural?
Cloning isn't new. Nature's been doing it for billions of years with plants. Things like potatoes and grass send out shoots which can grow into a whole new plant. If you grow a plant from a cutting it's a type of cloning. And identical twins are naturally-occurring clones of each other even though they're genetically different from their parents.





