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Title: History Of Cloning
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The short history of cloning really began all the way back in the 1950's. In 1952, Robert Briggs and Thomas King developed a cloning method called nuclear transplantation. In this method, the nucleus is removed from the egg of an organism. A nucleus from another organism is then placed into the egg organism. The result is an embryo that is genetically identical to the organism from the organism that it was obtained from. In the 1950's this experiment was conducted on mostly just frogs.
In the 1960's John Gurdon produced frogs from the nuclei from tadpole intestine cells. This was a huge breakthrough because it proved that all cells in a body contain a complete set of genes. Then came the 1980's a simpler cloning method was discovered. The new procedure was called embry ...
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