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Genetic Engineering This essay is going to discuss genetic engineering. The essay will concentrate on genetically engineered animals and in particular 'Dolly the Sheep'. Dolly the Sheep is more commonally known as a 'clone' of a normal healthy sheep. Depending on the age of the dictionary the biological definition of cloning can be : * A group of genetically identical individuals descended from the same parent by asexual reproduction. Many plants show this by producing suckers, tubers or bulbs to colonise the area around the parent. * A group of genetically identical cells produced by mitotic division from an original cell. This is where the cell creates anew set of chromosomes and splits into two daughter cells. This is how replacement cells are produced in your body when the old ones wear out. * A group of DNA molecules produced from an original length of DNA sequences produced by a bacterium or a...

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