SC300Unit Seven

Karma Pace McDuffy

kpace@kaplan.edu

AIM: KPaceMcDuffy@kaplan.edu

Agenda

1. Cloninh

2. Background

3. Laws

4. Simulation

5. Q & A

Cloning

• Process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually.

• Three types:

(1) recombinant DNA technology or DNA cloning

(2) reproductive cloning

(3) therapeutic cloning

Recombinant DNA

Steps:1.Create sticky ends2. Ligate two DNAs3.Place recombinant DNA in bacteria4. Selection

2008.igem.org

Reproductive cloning

1.Use egg with donor DNA

2.Use enucleated egg with donor nuclease wonderquest.com

Therapeutic cloning

• Using molecular methods or reproductive techniques• Create treatments for heart disease, Alzheimer's,

cancer• Custom medicine, insulin• Possible organs

whyfiles.org

Current uses

• In 1952, a tadpole was cloned• 2008 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided

that meat and milk from cloned animals, such as cattle, pigs and goats, are as safe as those from non-cloned animals

genome.gov

Complications

• Expensive• Inefficient• Short shelf life• Ethics

Ethics

• Religious

• Social

• Cultural

Seminar Question

• What are some of the great benefits to being able to create genetic clones?

• What are some of the great dangers? • If you were in charge of the nation’s cloning policy, what

rules would you establish and why? • What creature is the most complex creature that should

be allowed to be cloned, and why? • Should humans be cloned? Why or why not?

Questions