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Cloning - Coggle Diagram
Cloning
Uses (benefits)
best livestock
revive extinct animals
use DNA from remnants of fur/bones
new organs and body parts
people with diseases and injuries
Cloning
organisms
sharing the exact same genetic information
types
naturally
identical twins
artificially
cutting
take a cut of a plant
replant it somewhere else
History of cloning animals
early 1900s
split animal embryos
twins
in 1996
cloned sheep: Dolly
DNA from one sheep
copied
injected into another
Problems
premature aging: Dolly
aged and died early
genetic uniformity
if a virus spreads
crops from a single clone
could all die/survive
Ethical questions
Is it okay
to clone animals
could develop diseases
to clone human embryos
still debating
philsophers/scientists/politicians