SC300 Unit Seven Karma Pace McDuffy AIM:

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 ends 2. Ligate two DNAs 3.Place recombinant DNA in bacteria 4. 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

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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

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Complications Expensive Inefficient Short shelf life Ethics

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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?

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