• Question: How does cloning technology work?

    Asked by itssmeemayaa to Sarah, Will on 22 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by emma101999.
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      Sarah Martin answered on 22 Jun 2012:

      Hi itssmeemayaa!

      Cloning works by taking the DNA from a single animal you wish to clone and putting it inside an egg cell once it’s had its DNA scooped out, and then try to make it think it’s a newly fertilised egg cell so it grows into an embryo. This then gets put back in the womb and grows just like a normal embryo would. So this is how Dolly the sheep was made! But it’s illegal to clone humans, and I don’t really see the point since we can already make two humans produce a baby together!

      🙂 Sarah

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