... a hollow ball. The outer layer of the ball will support the baby during the pregnancy and the inner layer will form the baby. After one week, the zygote will arrive at the uterus. The zygote then implants itself into the uterine wall and then it connects to the blood vessels of the ... the uterine, an embryo is formed. This phase is called the "period of the embryo" and start at the third week after conception and finishes at the end of the eighth week. Internal organs and other body structures are developed during this period. According to Kail and Cavanaugh "The outer layer or ... be...

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... . 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 nuclear transfer."" (http://library.thinkquest.org/C0122429/history/1984.htm). In ... 1986, Willadsen cloned a cow from distinguishable, one week old embryo cells. This illustrated that genetic information of a cell did not decrease as a cell is specialized. In 1993, the First humans were ...

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... research in cloning has grown rapidly. "Three cows cloned by scientist at California State University at Chico were born healthy on March 9, but two of the calves died last week of abrupt immune system failure and the third is failing (http://globalchange.com/clonenews.htm)." These problems are common and show danger of human cloning. Many animals cloned have had obvious mutations ... ...

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... drugs like immunosuppressants for the rest of their life as is now required after transplants, there would not be any danger of organ rejection. Immunosuppressants are drugs that dampen the immune system so that white blood cells will not attack and reject the foreign tissue resulting in transplant failure. Immunosuppressants are associated with the risks of infection and cancers (Hazelton 2004 ... quality of life that could be extended to sick people would be greatly increased. For example someone who has kidney failure has to be attached to a dialysis machine four times a week for fiv...

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