Background InformationOn Plant Cloning


Many people will think that clones are a thing of science fiction. however, clones have been with us for a long time! cloning is a natural process that a vast majority of organisms on this planet undergo everday. There are many different ways that these organisms clone themselves but each time the parent produces an offspring that is identical to itself.

Cloning is the process of forming identical offspring from a single cell of tissue. Clones are always geneticaly identical to there parent because the clone only has one parent. Therefore, cloning is referred to as asexual reproduction.

Plant scientists hope that cloning will allow them to increase the amount and quality of foods. Cloning superior plants that are used for foods could increase the food supply. The idea, would be to select those plants with the most desirable chariteristics, and clone them over and again. This process is already done by breeding together those plants with the most desirable characteristics. Cloning these superior plants, can produce an exact genetic duplicate.

In 1958, a scientist named Fredrick Stewart caused great excitement when he grew a carrot from a single cell(for more information on this process see Plant Procedures). This was the first artifically cloned plant.


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