1. Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
The U.S Food and Drug Administration (2014), defines a somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), cloning, as the method in which organisms are asexually produced from the cell of another organism creating an identical copy of the donor cells DNA. ... A somatic cell is any cell of a living organism that is not a reproductive cell (Genetic Science Learning Center, 2014). The process of SCNT is when the nucleus, the part of a cell that contains DNA, of a somatic cell is transferred into an enucleated oocyte or an immature female reproductive cell that has had its nucleus removed (Yang, 2006, p.64). ...
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