InventorsCloning According
to the Humane Genome Project: To Human Genome
Project researchers, cloning refers to copying genes and other pieces of
chromosomes to generate enough identical material for further study. Two
other types of cloning produce complete, genetically identical animals.
Blastomere separation (sometimes called "twinning" after the naturally
occurring process that creates identical twins) involves splitting a developing
embryo soon after fertilization of the egg by a sperm (sexual reproduction)
to give rise to two or more embryos. The resulting organisms are identical
twins (clones) containing DNA from both the mother and the father. Dolly,
on the other hand, is the result of another type of cloning that produces
an animal carrying the DNA of only one parent. Using somatic cell nuclear
transfer, scientists transferred genetic material from the nucleus of an
adult sheep's udder cell to an egg whose nucleus, and thus its genetic
material, had been removed. (All cells that are not egg or sperm cells
are somatic cells.)
Cloning
- Resources Cloning
Timeline Human
Cloning HowStuffWorks
- How Human Cloning Will Work HowStuffWorks
- How Cloning Works Human
Cloning Foundation Cloning
- A Webliography Hello
Dolly A Web-Based Curricula for Teaching Cloning Cloning
Issues Cloning - The Current
Controversy Clonaid
- The first human cloning company CLONAID™ was
founded in February 1997 by Raël who is the leader of the Raelian
Movement, an international religious organization which claims that life
on Earth was created scientifically through DNA and genetic engineering
by a human extraterrestrial race whose name, Elohim, is found in the Hebrew
Bible and was mistranslated by the word "God". The Raelian Movement also
claims that Jesus was resurrected through an advanced cloning technique
performed by the Elohim.
