AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is the difference between test-tube babies and clones? So-called “test-tube” babies come from in vitro fertilization. The process is used to help people with fertility problems have biological children. As in cloning, eggs are taken from a woman’s ovaries.

Detailed explanation-2: -The cloning procedure is similar to in vitro fertilization (IVF), a medical procedure whereby an egg is fertilized by sperm in a test tube or elsewhere outside the body. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cloning by embryo splitting. This procedure begins with in vitro fertilization (IVF): the union outside the woman’s body of a sperm and an egg to generate a zygote. The zygote (from here onwards also called an embryo) divides into two and then four identical cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first test-tube twins were born in Melbourne, Australia, on June 6, 1981 to a 31-year-old woman, Radmila Mays. These twins, a boy, Stephen, and a girl, Amanda, were the seventh and the eight test tube babies born in the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -In such cases, the fertilization is done outside the uterus in a glass vessel by combining a female egg with a sperm. IVF and test-tube babies are the same with no difference at all. It is just that doctors specifically use the term IVF instead of test-tube babies.