Cloning/Nuclear Transfer: Novel Biotechnology for the Year 2000

ABSTRACT

 Nuclear transfer is the process involving the introduction of genetic material (in form of an individual cell nucleus removed from either an embryonic, a fetal or an adult cell) into the cytoplasm of an unfertilised egg or embryo, whose own genetic material (nucleus) has been removed. The nuclear genes of clones produced by this technique would be identical, although the mitochondrial DNA of such clones would be different. However, unlike the embryonic splitting technique, nuclear replacement has the potential to create a clone of an adult organism, as well as the potential to produce many more clones.