General Information on Cloning

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  • A clone is an organism (group of organisms), derived from another organism by a nonsexual reproductive process
  • One necessary aspect is that members of a clone have equal genetic assessments
  • Many methods of cloning
  • With a particular method of cloning you can produce insolin
  • The way scientists created Dolly was much more difficult
  • Dolly is the first adult mammal ever born
  • Since Dolly´s creation scientists all over the world talk about human cloning which is still a controversial issue