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What are the merits of cloning?

all things bright and beautiful Asked by jayneesacote 15 days ago, 4 answers.

I need strong and detailed answers.

Whiteboard portrate Answered by filletofspam on Nov 06, 2009, 08:39AM
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None for me, I enjoy sexual reproduction.

me! Answered by luthien on Nov 07, 2009, 08:39PM
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You can find heaps of info online (databases like pubmed are great) so I wont go into detail but I will give you a few tips to get you started. There are different types of cloning like therapeutic cloning or reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning can be used for tissue regeneration of the same genotype for personalised medicine. Look into somatic cell nuclear transfer which is a method of therapeautic cloning. Asexual reproduction is cloning too, and some merits of that is that if an organism is happy in its environment, more organisms will also be happy there, and also, many asexual reproduction techniques require less energy expenditure.

Gir rules. Answered by mikeh on Nov 09, 2009, 12:02PM
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It helps feed an enormous amount of people. Virtually every fruit tree producing fruit for supermarkets is a clone.

me! Answered by luthien on Nov 09, 2009, 05:04PM
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this is true. I dont know if thats good though, if they get a horrible fruity disease they will all be wiped out...

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