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Biology
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Part I: The Process of Cloning
Go to the “What is Cloning” page in the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center website at: http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/whatiscloning
1.
___________________________________ is the creation of organism that is an exact genetic copy of another.
2.
You might believe it, but there are human clones among us right now. They weren’t made in a lab though, they’re ________________________________________, created naturally.
3.
___________________________________________ is the relatively low-tech version of cloning. As the name suggests, this technology mimics the natural process of creating identical twins.
4.
Artificial embryo twinning uses the same approach, but it occurs in a ________________________________________ instead of the mother’s body.
5.
Somatic cell nuclear transfer was the method used to create _______________________________________________.
6.
A ______________________________________ is any cell in the body other than the two types of reproductive cells, sperm and eggs.
7.
It’s the differences in our __________________ that make each of us unique.
8.
To make Dolly, researchers isolated a __________________________________ from an adult female sheep. Next, they
________________________________ the __________________________________ from that cell to an egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed. After a couple of chemical tweaks, the egg cell, with its new nucleus, was behaving just like a freshly fertilized zygote. It developed into an embryo, which was implanted into a
_______________________________________________________ and carried to term.
9.
_____________________________________ (Be specific. Give the type of mammal and name) was the first mammal ever to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.
10.
Play the natural reproduction movie to answer this question: Because the offspring contains a combination of the two sets of parent’s chromosomes it is not genetically identical to either parent but is, instead
_____________________________________________________.
11.
Play the somatic cell nuclear transfer movie for this question: The somatic cell is _____________________________ into a media that causes it to __________________________ ___________ ______________________________ as an udder cell.
12.
An egg cell is _______________________________________ from a different animal. The egg cell’s ________________________ is removed.
13.
The egg cell and the somatic cell are ______________________ using an _________________________ ______________________.
Part II: Simulating Cloning
Go to the “Click and Clone” page in the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center website at: http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/clickandclone
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14.
List all 6 steps in the click and clone procedure: a.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ b.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ c.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ d.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ e.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ f.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Part III: Ethical Issues of Cloning
Go to the “Click and Clone” page in the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center website at: http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/clickandclone
Answer the seven questions about the ethics of cloning on a separate sheet of lined paper. Include support/reasoning for each response.
 Who has the right to have children, no matter how they are created? Who doesn't? Why?
 Is human cloning "playing with nature?" If so, how does that compare with other reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization or hormone treatments?
 Does cloning to create stem cells, also called therapeutic cloning, justify destroying a human embryo? Why, or why not?
 If a clone originates from an existing person, who is the parent?
 What are some of the social challenges a cloned child might face?
 Do the benefits of human cloning outweigh the costs of human dignity?
 Should cloning research be regulated? How, and by whom?