cloning

• give types of plant cloning

  • cuttings
  • tissue cultue
• describe cuttings

  1. take cuttings from plant
  2. plant cuttings
  3. grow into clone
• describe tissue culture

  1. take few cells of plant
  2. grow cells in growth medium
  3. grow into clone
• give types of animal cloning

  • embryo transplant
  • adult cell cloning
• describe process of embryo transplant

  1. artificially fertilise sperm and egg
  2. embryo formed
  3. embryo split
  4. embryo implanted into host mothers
• describe process of adult cell cloning

  1. add nucleus of adult cell to unfertilised egg cell
  2. electric shock egg cell to divide into embryo
  3. embryo implanted in host mother
• give advantages of cloning

  • preserve rare species
  • known characteristics
• give disadvantages of cloning

  • reduce gene pool
  • increased complications