AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Myth: Cloning is a new technology. Myth: Clones are a specific animal’s DNA grafted onto another body. Myth: Offspring of clones are clones, and each generation gets weaker and weaker and has more and more problems. Myth: Clones are always identical in looks.

Detailed explanation-2: -These two dogs were cloned by a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in stem cell based therapeutics. Cloning is a technique scientists use to make exact genetic copies of living things. Genes, cells, tissues, and even whole animals can all be cloned. Some clones already exist in nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first fish to be cloned was an Asian Carp in 1963 by Chinese embryologist Tong Dizhou. The first mouse to be cloned was a house mouse via an embryo cell in 1986 in the Soviet Union. The first sheep to be cloned was a sheep named Dolly in 1996 by the Roslin Institute.

Detailed explanation-4: -Have humans been cloned? Despite several highly publicized claims, human cloning still appears to be fiction. There currently is no solid scientific evidence that anyone has cloned human embryos.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.