AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cloning is a type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or from a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism. Scientists have been able to clone many animals with the chromosomes from one parent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical or virtually identical DNA, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction.

Detailed explanation-3: -Humans have designed and produced crops, work animals, and companions through artificial selection. Cloning has the potential to reproduce exact copies of selected individuals, but it goes against the principles which govern natural selection.

Detailed explanation-4: -Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), also called nuclear transfer, uses a different approach than artificial embryo twinning, but it produces the same result: an exact genetic copy, or clone, of an individual. This was the method used to create Dolly the Sheep.