CLONING

• What is Cloning?
• Which type of living species have been cloned?
• Is it good or bad for the society?
• How is cloning done?
• What can go wrong?

WHAT IS CLONING?

• Cloning is exactly genetic copies of organisms.
• The DNA is exactly the same.
• Not so common between mammals- identical twins.
• Bacteries can also reproduce by cloning.
• Can also happen in the lab and other animals can be cloned. (Fabian)

HOW DOES CLONING HAPPEN?

• Two ways of cloning
• Artificial embryo cloning or..
• Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

CLONING HAS BEEN DONE ON.....

• Most common- cat, dog, horse, goat, rabbit, fish, mammoth
• Most of these animals- during 20th century.
• This is due to the technology that has been improved.

IS IT GOOD FOR THE SOCIETY.?

• Expensive
• Crimes
• Organs
• Weak
• Already out from food web

WHAT CAN GO WRONG?

• Success rate = 0.1-3%
• 970 to 999 failures in 1000
• Large Offspring Syndrome
• ^Breathing, blood flow and other.

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