... freely around the plant and insured random fertilization. Materials and Methods During week one we were given two-week-old cultures of G2 C-Fern gametophytes. The cultures were grown on agar plates marked A and B. The plates were maintained at 28o Celsius. The plates were also kept under 24 hour fluorescent light for two weeks. We counted the number of pale and ... have once the gametophytes were given a chance to undergo fertilization. We placed 2 mL of sterile water on each of our agar plates to induce random fertilization among the haploid gametophytes. This water allowed the mobiliz...

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... /1979.htm). "Danish Steen Willadsen cloned the first sheep in 1984. He fused a cell from an 8-cell lamb embryo with an enucleated unfertilized egg. The fertilized embryos were coated with agar and placed in the oviducts of a sheep to grow for a week. They were then placed into a uterus of a surrogate mother, and one sheep survived birth v/s the first cloned mammal by ... ...

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