The Cloning Database


Plant Cloning Procedures



Cloning is well practiced by many scientists. In this page we will talk about plant Cloning, it's history and some of the things that could or will happen, and ways on doing these things. 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.


This following procedure was done by Federick Stewart in 1958. He cloned a carrot by taking a few single cells from the rapidly growing area near the tip of the root and put them in a culture with some different plant hormones that helped the cell growth. When the cells divided into a mass he took them out of the hormones and put them soil. By doing that the cell groth slowed down and gave the cells time to take shape and specilize brefore they had to undegone mitosis once again. From that the clone of a carrot was created.


Many plants like carrots, ferns, tobacco petunias and lettuce are good for cloning, but other plants like grass and legume type plants aren't. There is no real reason exept for probably the genetic makeup of the plant cannot reproduce that way. Each cell has the exact same DNA as the last, yet some go on to specialize in becoming root systems stems of leaves. Leaf cells can only use a certian part of their DNA, Just as the root cells can only use other parts of their DNA, because they are all specialized cells. So keep this in mind when experimenting with cloning different kinds of plants.






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