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Cloning is the process of asexually producing a group of independent organisms or cells, all genetically identical, from a single ancestor.
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Cloning is the process of asexually producing a group of independent organisms or cells, all genetically identical, from a single ancestor(www.mobot.org/duckweed/cloning-duckweed.htm) In normal sexual reproduction, sperm cells containing 23 chromosomes (haploid cell) fuse with an egg containing 23 chromosomes as well. They fuse to form a diploid cell which contains46 chromosomes and then divide and develop into an embryo (in humans). In cloning, an egg with 23 chromosomes is removed from a donor and the chromosomes from the nucleus of the diploid cell of the cell donor are removed and replaced with 46 chromosomes from the donor cell and implanted into the womb. The egg cell starts to replicate and then to make an embryo. Although this process of cloning can be practised on other types of living organisms, in the long run it can only be beneficial to mankind as it was invented for us by us. This is...
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