Gene cloning

What is a clone?

A clone is NOT a twin

If you were to clone yourself...

Your clone would start out as a baby

And grow into a person with the same genes as you!

But that does not guarantee you will look alike

Your twin will develop their own personality.

Causing them to have their own style and make their own choices

Now that you know what a clone is

Let's learn how a clone is made

First their is a surrogate mother, a mouse, for example

Then their is the mouse we will be cloning, we will call him Mickey

Lastly, we would need a mouse to donate one of its egg cells

Cloning steps

• Insert somatic cell into petri dish
• Use sharp pipette to remove the nucleus
• Insert egg cell into petri dish
• Use sharp pipette to remove nucleus
• Insert somatic cell's nucleus into egg cell

Steps one and two

steps three and four

step 5

Next, the egg is inserted into the surrogate mother and she becomes pregnant

About 9 days later, a mouse that look just like Mickey is born!