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2006-08-30 04:10:42 · 2 answers · asked by get2rohan_365 2 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Cloning a cell means to derive a (clonal) population of cells from a single cell. This is an important in vitro procedure when the expansion of a single cell with certain characteristics is desired, for example in the production of gene-targeted ES cells. Most individuals began as a single cell and are therefore the result of clonal expansion in vivo.

Cloning means to create a new organism with the same genetic information as a cell from an existing one(identical). It is an asexual method of reproduction, where fertilization or inter-gamete contact does not take place. In a modern context, this can involve somatic cell nuclear transfer in which a cell of the organism to be cloned, with its nucleus containing the DNA, is transferred into an egg cell which has had its nucleus removed. As the nucleus contains almost all of the genetic information of a lifeform, the "host" egg cell will develop into an organism with genetically identical nuclear DNA to the nucleus "donor". However, this process does not conserve the mitochondrial genome (of the nucleus donor) unless the nucleus and egg cell donor were from the same maternal lineage. Also mutations occur with every cell division so no two cells in an individual are identical, nor are clones. Thus, nuclear transfer clones from different maternal lineages are not clones in the strictest sense because the mitochondrial genome is not the same as that of the nucleus donor cell from which it was produced. This may have important implications for cross-species nuclear transfer in which nuclear-mitochondrial incompatibilities may lead to inviability.

2006-08-30 04:15:25 · answer #1 · answered by endrshadow 5 · 2 0

simple it can be done
like u prick ur hair from head. in this way u get 500 cells simple one cell is taken. in and enucleated egg (the egg from which nuclues is removed) put the nucleus from the hair cell and put into the egg grow egg in vivo (inside the human body) and u have same individual like U

2006-08-30 11:26:13 · answer #2 · answered by sarah m 4 · 0 0

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