Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Reproduction
- Cloning Techniques
- Plants
- Taking Cuttings
- New plants can be
produced quickly
and cheaply
- Tissue Culture
- Uses small groups of
cells from part of a
plant
- Large number of
plants can be
produced
- Animals
- Embryo
Transplants
- Cells are split apart
from developing
embryos
- Embryos inserted
into host mothers
- All the offspring are
identical BUT show
variation to the parents
- Adult Cell
Cloning
- The nucleus is
removed from
an unfertilised
egg
- The nucleus from an adult
body cell is removed and
inserted into the empty egg
cell
- An electric shock
causes the egg to divide
into an embryo
- When the embryo is a
ball of cells it is inserted
into a host animal
- The animal produced is
identical to the animal
which provided the adult
cell nucleus
- Sexual Reproduction
- The fusion of gametes
- The offspring show variation
and are NOT identical to the
parents
- Asexual Reproduction
- No fusion of gametes
- Only one parent needed
- The offspring are
identical to the parent
and are known as
clones
- Genetic Engineering
- Genes from humans and
other organisms can be cut out
and transfered to cells of other
organisms.
- Genes are cut out using
enzymes
- Genes can be added to
crop plants to make them
resistant to disease
- People are concerned about the
effect of GM crops on the
populations of wild flowers and
insects and the effect on human health.