Chapter 19, Problem 4PDQ

Summary Introduction

To analyze:

The reason for the labelling of the products as cloned animal product or normal label, such as in case of milk, obtained from the cloned cows or their descendants, while these cloned animals are identical to the normal ones.

Introduction:

Animal cloning is an approach of reproductive cloning for producing the animal clones of desirable qualities. In animal cloning, a mature somatic cell is removed from the animal which we want to copy and transferred into the egg or oocyte of the recipient cell. This recipient cell must be enucleated and should not contain the viable nucleus. There are more than 1000 cloned farm animals in the United States and the milk from these cloned cows and their offspring may be available in the markets in near future. These cloned animals are not transgenic and are not different from identical twins.