I understand the idea behind cloning that you're reproducing DNA from another source of DNA. But for example, say you want to clone a bunny rabbit, do you have a bunch of bunny rabbit "blanks" that you clone the DNA into? Does this make any sense? I really don't understand how the whole proccess works, so if someone could simplify it for me that would be great.
2007-01-23 03:25:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Anyway, cloning is just creating an organism with the exact same DNA as an already living organism. If you have ever grown a plant from cuttings, technically that is a method of cloning. However, you can't grow a rabbit from cuttings, so it gets pretty tricky. What you have to do is take the DNA from a rabbit and put it into a surrogate mother. The process is a lot harder that it sounds, because you have to take a rabbit egg cell and remove the DNA. Then you take DNA from the rabbit you want to clone and put it into the egg cell, and put the egg cell into the surrogate mother. That is only one method, but it is probably the most commonly know. See the site listed below for more about cloning, with diagrams and stuff. I hope that helps.
2007-01-23 04:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cloning is normally done in one of two ways.
It can be done by taking eggs of a desirable mother and using chemistry to force them to split more often than they do naturally and then these split cells are separated and allowed to grow and put in a mother that is ready to be pregnant (a whole nother topic.)
Or DNA from a desirable rabbit is collected and nurtured. An egg from a fertile mother is removed and using very tiny needles, the DNA from the mother's egg is removed and the desire able DNA is injected. The egg is then put back in the mother. When the fetus grows, it contains the same DNA as the donor.
2007-01-23 11:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nice answer Aaron, you hit the process on the head. As for removing the undesirable DNA from a potential animal clone, it is usually done by irradiating the embryo in question, which destroys the DNA leaving the embryo intact for receiving the desired DNA.
2007-01-23 12:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cloning is just the process of putting a nucleus into the egg cell with its own nucleus removed.Then that egg cell is allowed to develop into an embryo and is put into a prepared female rabbit. She then gives birth to a baby rabbit the old fashioned way.
Even the nucleus comes from another rabbit.
What is artificial is the process of putting the nucleus form the adult animal into the egg.
The even DNA is not artificial, it came from an adult rabbit.
2007-01-23 11:44:56 · answer #4 · answered by a simple man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the DNA is injected into an unfertilized egg of a rabbit and then its planted back into the surrogate mummy rabbit. who carries and gives birth to the clone.
2007-01-23 11:35:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋