GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Topic: ANIMAL CLONING

November 24, 2012
Group 5
Cabahug, Tessa Jane
Leonardia , Ernesto Jr.
Ongoco, Areeya Amor D.

Topic Outline:
I. Definition of terms
1. Animal Cloning
1.1 What is a Clone?
1.2 What is a Donor Cell?
1.3 Whats a surrogate mother?
1.4 What are embryonic cells? Adult Somatic Cells?
II. The Technology
2. Types of Animal Cloning
2.1 Embryo splitting
2.2 Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)
2.4.1 Somatic cell nuclear transfer: The Process
2.4.2 Development after SCNT
III. Application
3. Applications of animal cloning
3.1 Agricultural Application
3.1.1 Livestock technology and Farming
3.2 Biomedical Application and Research
3.2.1 Understanding Disease models among animals
3.2.2 Bioreactors
IV. Advantages, Disadvantages and Bioethical Issue

4. Advantages
4.1 Provide transplantation technology
4.2 In medicine: treatment for variety of diseases
4.3 Research purposes
4.4 Improvement of reproductive technologies in animal farming
5. Disadvantages and Bioethical Issues
5.1 Decline in genetic diversity.
5.2 Taking nature into our own hands.
5.3 Religious and moral reasons.
5.4 Physical problems, such as birth defects.
5.5 Animal Developmental anomalies


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David A. Prentice , Stem Cell and Cloning Glossary of Terms , November 24, 2012,
Copyright David A. Prentice, 2004,
http://www.leaderu.com/science/stemcellcloning_glossary.html

Gabor Vajta and Mickey Gjerris, Science and technology of farm animal cloning:
State of the art, November 24, 2012, 0378-4320/$ see front matter 2005 Elsevier B.V.
All rights reserved.doi:10.1016/j.anireprosci.2005.12.001,
http://www.dimet.org/courses/modelli_animali/Vajta_AnimReprodSci06.pdf , 1-16p.

































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