KERALA PSC / CLONING / NOTES / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY

 

KERALA PSC / CLONING / NOTES / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY

KERALA PSC / CLONING / NOTES / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY

·      Cloning is the process of producing many identical organisms or clones (clone means exact carbon copy or copies of a single parent)

·      It is the production of one individual organism from a nucleus, cell or asexual offshot or another

·      Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Research Institute in Scotland cloned the first sheep Dolly

·      The young one of Dolly, named Polly, was born in 1998

·      Ian Wilmut is considered as the father of cloning

·      Carbon copy is the first cloned cat, in 2001, at Texas.

·      Cell cloning is based on the property of totipotency (in plant) or pleuripotency (in animals)

·      Totipotency is a potential ability of plant cell to grow into complete plant. Pleuripotency is the potential ability of an animal cell to develop into any type of cell in the animal body.

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