BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, Embryonic Stem Cell, Nuclear Transfer

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1010
• Professor: James Miller

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1-animals as a source of medically valuable proteins (e. g. antibodies) 2-animals as important models in basic research (gene knockout, drug testing and design) 2-clones of animals (derived by nuclear transfer from embryonic and somatic cells. 3-chimeric animals (received transplanted cells/tissues from another animal) 5-animals derived by in vitro cultivation (such as maturation or manipulation of embryos) 6-create homogeneous populations of cells, tissues and even organs for therapeutic transfer for organ failure patients. #nature commonly produces clones (e. g. bacteria, single celled eukaryotes) Many commercially important strains of fruits are produced from clones. Seedless plants can only be reproduced as clones. Animal clones may result from budding as a way of reproducing (e. g. in corals). Parthenogenesis in invertebrates (asexual reproduction of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell) Identical twins result from the splitting of an embryo into two separate cell masses which both go on to develop into genetically identical twins.