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Agenda
1. Cloninh
2. Background
3. Laws
4. Simulation
5. Q & A
Cloning
• Process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually.
• Three types:
(1) recombinant DNA technology or DNA cloning
(2) reproductive cloning
(3) therapeutic cloning
Recombinant DNA
Steps:1.Create sticky ends2. Ligate two DNAs3.Place recombinant DNA in bacteria4. Selection
2008.igem.org
Reproductive cloning
1.Use egg with donor DNA
2.Use enucleated egg with donor nuclease wonderquest.com
Therapeutic cloning
• Using molecular methods or reproductive techniques• Create treatments for heart disease, Alzheimer's,
cancer• Custom medicine, insulin• Possible organs
whyfiles.org
Current uses
• In 1952, a tadpole was cloned• 2008 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided
that meat and milk from cloned animals, such as cattle, pigs and goats, are as safe as those from non-cloned animals
genome.gov
Complications
• Expensive• Inefficient• Short shelf life• Ethics
Ethics
• Religious
• Social
• Cultural
Seminar Question
• What are some of the great benefits to being able to create genetic clones?
• What are some of the great dangers? • If you were in charge of the nation’s cloning policy, what
rules would you establish and why? • What creature is the most complex creature that should
be allowed to be cloned, and why? • Should humans be cloned? Why or why not?
Questions