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Cloning is usually accomplished by harvesting an egg from a member of the same or a similar species. All the mother's genetic material is removed and replaced with that of the target specimen. An electrical shock is then used to trigger cell devision. The cell splits into an exactly genetically similar copy of the specimen.

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well, I beleive one would extract the genetic information of a particular subject, then take the genetic information of another early zygote {or was it embryo} and squirt in the subjects DNA, then implant that zygote into a momma and whalla. A clone. I know this is very simplified, mabe someone else can give you a more detailed explanation. I beleive this is the way they went about cloning, Dolly I think it was, the sheep in Europe a while back.

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Nope, as above mentioned in case of Dolly the transplanted DNA was from an somatic cell of an adult sheep. Of course there are also different definitions of cloning. But I assume that this one is the one most often associated with the term "cloning".

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I think that dolly was cloned when the embryo's DNA was copied and transplanted to another embryo of the same sex. The other embryo's previous DNA was removed and

"deleted". So when they were born they were clones

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Nope again. Funny actually, given the fact that the important bit about Dolly was that she was cloned from the DNA of differentiated cells. There was earlier work with embryonic DNA, though, including very early reports with Xenopus. I believe that also a sheep was cloned embryonic DNA, but it was a bit before Dolly.

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