Objectives of Cloning
Why Clone?
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Passage 8 Why Clone? |
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| You might wonder why researchers are trying so hard to
clone
animals. Are they doing it just to see if it can be done? Are they "mad scientists," obsessed with the idea of creating life? |
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Why would someone want to clone an animal? |
The answers are "no" and "no." Dolly was bred at a research farm in Scotland. Scientists there are trying to find more efficient ways of raising farm animals with
desired features
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nuclear transfer
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preferred traits
in their animals. For example, they could pick out from a flock of hens the one that lays the most eggs. They could clone her and use the clones as
breeding stock
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