• This is the making of identical copies of genes, DNA and whole organisms.
• Cloning is used in plants - that is tissue culture e.g. in development of various varieties of bananas and Eucalyptus trees.
• The first mammal to be cloned successfully was Dolly - the sheep.
• A nucleus from the cell obtained from the udder of the sheep was inserted in an unfertilized egg without a nucleus.
• This zygote was introduced into the uterus of a sheep and developed to full term.
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