Cloning animals

Question 1

What are the steps to clone an animal?

Answer 1

• Take an egg cell from a donor female and remove its nucleus to form an “enucleated” egg cell
• Take an adult body cell (e.g: skin cell) from the organism you wish to clone and remove the organism
• Put the nucleus from the body cell into the enucleated egg cell
• Stimulate the egg using and electrical shock. It will then act like a zygote and divide by mitosis into an embryo
• Implant the embryo into a surrogate mother. It will then develop into a fetus and be born like normal

Question 2

What does transgenic mean?

Answer 2

• When an organism contains DNA from another species