Can plants be cloned?
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(m)\n\nCloning of Plant Cells and Manipulation of Plant Genes\nPlant cells exhibit a variety of characteristics that distinguish them from animal cells. These characteristics include the presence of a large central vacuole and a cell wall, and the absence of entioles, which play a role in mitosis, meiosis, and cell division. Along with these physical differences, another factor distinguishes plant cells from animal cells, which is of great significance to the scientist interested in biotechnology: Many varieties of full-grown adult plants can regenerate from single, modified plant cells called protoplasts - plant cells whose cell walls have been removed by enzymatic digestion. More specifically, when some species of plant cells are subjected to the removal of the cell wall by enzymatic treatment, they respond by synthesizing a new cell wall and eventually undergoing a series of cell divisions and developmental processes that result in the formation of a new adult plant. That adult plant can be said to have been cloned from a single cell of a parent plant. \nPlants that can be cloned with relative ease include carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, petunias, and cabbage, to name only a few. The capability to grow a whole plant from a single cell means that researchers can engage in the genetic manipulation of the cell, let the cell develop into a completely mature plant, and examine the whole spectrum of physical and growth effects of the genetic manipulation within a relatively short period of time. Such a process is far more straightforward than the parallel process in animal cells, which cannot be cloned into full-grown adults. Therefore, the results of any genetic manipulation are usually easier to examine in plants than in animals.
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regeneration of RuBP\n\nFrom the link below:
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Clone Problem\n\nWith the advances in cloning I presume humans shall be next. \n\nThis brings us to the BIG question. If you push your naked clone off the top of a tall building, would it be? \n\nA) Murder? \n\nB) Suicide?  \n\nC) Merely making an obscene clone fall?
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ro plants and spares ????? can u pls be spcific?
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You likely won't find one on-line...your best bet would be to contact a plant and see if they will provide a copy of  their manual to you.
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fundamentally they will be the same plant but genetic they will be different they will have the same features but those features will appear in a varied state...the environment has a lot to do with how they appear
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They choose do reproduce plants that way because the cuttings are true to parents characteristically. Meaning, the next generation of plants will look and produce just like the plants of the year before.
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Human cloning is practically possible. That is ,it can be done. But the actual human cloning is at present; illegal.\nAt the same time animal cloning has not even been perfected. Only 1 or 2 offsprings are gotten from about 100 experiments.
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cloning only can happen by taking dna from say one person the clone then has the same dna identical twins may have all of the same looks as a cloned person would but has differnt dna
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They have not so far. They are working out the kinks in cloning just now, and they have barely managed to clone such animals such as cats and gaur.
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There are three types of cloning, 1)DNA cloning 2)Reproductive cloning and 3)Therapeutic cloning.\n\nMost cloning in animals are done with Reproductive cloning.\n\nIn this process, the genetic material from the nucleus of a donor adult cell is transferred to an egg whose nucleus, and thus its genetic material, has been removed. The reconstructed egg containing the DNA from a donor cell must be treated with chemicals or electric current in order to stimulate cell division. Once the cloned embryo reaches a suitable stage, it is transferred to the uterus of a female host where it continues to develop until birth. \n\nYou may wish to visit the websites http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml\nhttp://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/page.asp?i_ToolbarID=5&i_PageID=162
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memory has nothing to do with cloning. clones are legal humans, just with identical DNA as some one else. no your children wouldnt be the clones children, the clone is one persons DNA put into the womb of a woman, and then it gets birthed like any other baby. nothing is the same except the dna, and especially not the age, relatives, or memory.  of corse its murder to kill a clone, the clone would be a person just like you or I. clones don't even necessarily grow up to look the same as their parent clone.
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Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another. This means that every single bit of DNA is the same between the two.
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Agree with the two above if the plant is kept sterile and fed sterile apple juice.  Otherwise, it would be very easy for fungi and bacteria to overgrow the root system.
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cloning\nstem cells\ngenetic manipulation
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check this out.\n\nkeep in mind the info is 5 yrs old.\n\nhttp://www.forbes.com/2001/11/26/1126cloning.html
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Depends on what kind of cloning you are talking about.\n\nThe term "cloning" can be used to describe inserting a foreign gene into a bacteria... or creating a genetically identical copy of organism.\n\nTo create an identical copy... you would require an oocyte (an egg) and a somatic cell.  You'd need to remove all the DNA from the egg and the somatic cell... then inject the DNA into the egg.  Along with other factors and after growing... you will have an organism gentically identical to the orriginal.\n\nCloning genes into bacteria involves a plasmid (circular piece of non-chromosomal DNA).  You would need to open up the plasmid using restriction enzymes (DNA scissors basically) and cut the gene of interest out with the same enzyme.  Mix them then insert into your bacteria by your favorite method (electroporation, chemical method, heat/cold shock, micro-injection).  Let the bacteria grow (all bacteria in a colony are gentically identical to the parent... for the most part)