Saturday, March 3, 2012

How would someone go about cloning an animal outside of a surrogate mother?

I am helping a friend of mine in biology and she is interested in cloning but we have no surrogate to insert the fetus into what would we need to grow it in a test tube? She wants to clone a cat but I'm trying to talk her in to trying something that doesn't require a womb like fish, tadpoles or even a bird.How would someone go about cloning an animal outside of a surrogate mother?
That is illegal unless you are doing it with a licensed agency.



Plus she'll get animal cruelty charges pressed.How would someone go about cloning an animal outside of a surrogate mother?
There is no way to clone something that grows in the womb, like a mammal. The reason is there is no way to replicate the function of the placenta outside the womb. As for trying to clone something that grows in an egg, I'm not sure, but I also don't see how it would work. Take a bird, for example. You would have to extract the DNA that's already in the egg and then insert the DNA from your clone. I don't think the egg would survive. Maybe you could try with an egg from the bird you are trying to clone. Half of her DNA is already in the egg.

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