1. Cloning
The basic priciple that allows whole animal cloning to take place would be the cell theory principle that states that "cells can only arise 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. ... The process of nuclear transfer has since then improved somewhat and developed into the "Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT)" or therapeutic cloning which involves the remo...
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