Posted by stihlpro on 4/14/2007, 10:10 pm, in reply to "Re: GOOD OL' CLONING"
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Meiosis is the process of producing Haploid cells (sperm in males and eggs in females). If you were to take a sperm and extract it's DNA you would only have half of the DNA you need. Each parent giving only half (randomly) of their DNA crates pairs of chromosomes which in return makes the offspring half their dam and half their sire.
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: SO COULD YOU CLONE A BULL FROM SEMEN ALONE?
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: when a sperm or egg cell is made, the parent
: cell divides by meiosis and just splits the
: dna into two different cells so that when
: the sex cells join they just combine the
: present dna
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: ACTUALLY, I THOUGHT GENES WERE CHOSEN
: RANDOMLY AT THE MEETING OF SPERM & EGG
: AND HOW COULD THERE ONLY BE 50% OF HIS DNA.I
: MEAN LIKE CLONED SEMEN.
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: I beleive that would be very difficult
: considering that the sperm inside semen only
: contain 50% of the DNA from its producer.
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: THE TECHNOLOGY IS OUT THERE TO CLONE BULLS,
: COWS, STEERS. 1)CAN THEY MAKE CLONES FROM
: SEMEN
: IF SO, WHY NOT BRING BACK POWER PLANT OR
: CUNIA WHERE SEMEN ISN'T $300 PER STRAW OR
: OTHER GOOD BULLS WHO HAVE PAST LONG AGO.
: THIS IS ALL ON THE ASSUMPTION YOU CAN MAKE
: CLONES FROM SEMEN
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