... only by division from a preexisting cell" (Karp, 2003). The first evidence of early cloning come from the 1960's, a scientist named John Gurdon who transplanted the nucleus of a specialized cell from one of the adult frogs and fertilized the nucleus in an egg of another frog. Although the experiment did not work because the tadpoles did not pull through. His theories and methods received ... much skepticism, however the experiment did establish that cell ... specialization can be altered and even manipulated using the "nuclear transfer" method. The process ... ...

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