Cloning Monkeys: A Milestone for Human Clones
Chapter 1

Nature did it first

Chapter 2

The recipe for a clone

Chapter 3

The great cloning ban

Chapter 4

Clones in the wild imagination

YOUR GOAL

Master of The copy paste puzzle of cloning humans

Ch 2 · The recipe for a clone
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007skaty Scientists successfully cloned identical primate species.

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007skaty Primate Cloning Breakthrough

Swapped out the cell, rewrote the code, two clones are born.

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Even with the exact blueprint, replication is incredibly fragile.

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007skaty Seoul National University scientists successfully cloned an Afghan Hound named Snuppy.

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Dolly the sheep makes history

007skaty This milestone at Scotland's Roslin Institute required 277 attempts, producing one live lamb and sparking global debates about biotechnology.

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The magic of nuclear transfer

007skaty Somatic cell nuclear transfer drives the primary scientific process behind human cloning

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Snuppy the cloned canine
BETA

007skaty Drag the donor DNA into the egg cell to learn how Snuppy was cloned.

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Fun Fact

Cloning efficiency: Out of 277 attempts to clone Dolly the sheep, only one single embryo survived to birth.

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Glossary
somatic cell nuclear transfer (noun)
A laboratory technique in which the nucleus of a somatic cell is transferred into an enucleated egg. In 1996, Scottish scientists used this method to produce Dolly, the first cloned mammal.

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Gossip

Would you clone a beloved pet?

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Quiz

Dolly the sheep was cloned using a cell from which specific part of an adult sheep?

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007skaty The science of somatic cell nuclear transfer.

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In which country was Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, born in 1996?

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007skaty Scientists successfully clone Dolly the sheep.

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Quiz

What is the process of removing the nucleus from an egg cell during cloning called?

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What is used to stimulate the fused egg and somatic cell to start dividing into an embryo?

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What breed of dog was Snuppy, the world's first successfully cloned canine born in South Korea?

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Why are dogs considered exceptionally difficult to clone compared to other mammals?

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Which animal class proved exceptionally difficult to clone, requiring special chemical adjusters to unlock the DNA?

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What are the names of the two cloned macaque monkeys born in China in late 2017?

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