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What are the social issues disadvantages of cloning plants in tissue culture?
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∙ 13y ago
Well, a lot of it is in speculation right now, but one disadvantage has to do with telomeres.
At the ends of each of your chromosomes there are long 'buffer zones' where there are a lot of nucleotides, but no actual genes. These are called telomeres Everytime your DNA replicates during cell divison, bits of these buffer zones break off. This is okay, because again, it these 'buffers' don't carry any information. The problem is, eventually you DO start loosing information because the telomeres run out. This is linked to aging.
Dolly the sheep, for example, died at only age 6 (most sheep live to be about 2) and one of the things that they noticed was that she had shortened telomeres, because her chromosomes originally started from an adult sheep; they hadn't been brand new at her conception.
As it turned out, she had problems like Arthritis and such that you would expect from a much older animal
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agothere arent any. . . .
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What is the purpose of cloning plants?
Tissue culture cloning is the process of taking small parts of specimen plants and creating unlimited numbers of exact genetic copies asexually in a sterile lab setting. This process has been adapted to create genetically altered commercial food and medicinal crops.
Where can cloning be carried out?
In grain production. (Farming). Additional: The cloning of plants by vegetative propagation (taking cuttings) is the most common form of cloning today and will certainly continue to be so.
How can cloning be used?
Theoretically By cloning A plant or animal you end up with a copy of the original plant or animal. For instance if you were to clone all beef cattle from parents that gave terrific beef industry could alway be assured of the quality of a given strain of beef. this would be of great advantage to the growers of meat. The same can be said for the growers of plants and fruit uniformity in quality is very important when it cums to the bottom line.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of genetically modified foods?
One of the disadvantages of the genetically modified foods is that it allows animal products in plants which could raise issues for those with dietary restrictions like the vegans. The advantage of the genetically modified foods is that they can increase the crop yield in a very small acreage.
How is cloning a plant done?
This process is sometimes called cloning because every new plant is exactly like the parent. One type of cloning uses cuttings--parts of plants that grow into new plants. Both stems and leaves can be used as cuttings. Another kind of cloning is grafting--the joining together of two plants into one. Other kinds of cloning use bulbs or tubers--underground parts that make new plants.
What does cloning crop plants in tissue culture involve?
Cloning of crop plants in tissue culture involves tiny pieces from the parent plant. Sterile agar jelly with plant hormones are needed which makes tissue culture an expensive way of cloning crop plants.
What are the economic advantages of cloning crop plants in tissue culture?
basically yeah the economic advantages of cloning crop plants in tissue culture is that its pretty cheao and easy to do innit.
Is cloning of crop plants in tissue culture ethical?
one of the ethical reason about cloning a plant is that it is not natural
By which process can a group of genetically identical plants be rapidly produced from the cells of a single plant?
cloning/Tisssue culture
What economic advantages and disadvantages does cloning crop plants in tissue culture have?
The advantages are that you can get a lot more plants and feed more people. Disadvantage is that you may end up with too much and the price will go down.
Significance of tissue culture?
Tissue culture is the growth of tissues in suitable environment. They are used widely in study of maturation and growth of animal cells and plants, in cancer research, in cloning experiments etc.
What are the ethical issues related to cloning?
It depends which species we are talking about. Cloning of animals and plants does not raise any new ethical issues. Cloning of human beings (which so far has not been done) raises new ethical issues. What is the legal status of cloned people - will they be granted all the same rights as other human beings? Will they be mass produced to be used as soldiers, slaves, etc.? Who will raise them? Will they be genetically modified? If so, are they still people? And so forth.
What is the purpose of cloning plants?
Tissue culture cloning is the process of taking small parts of specimen plants and creating unlimited numbers of exact genetic copies asexually in a sterile lab setting. This process has been adapted to create genetically altered commercial food and medicinal crops.
What are the disadvantages of cloning animals?
An advantage of cloning is that they can produce the right milk and produce good quality meat. A disadvantage of cloning is that it reduces variety in a population (this means the population are less able to survive any changes to their environment).
When complex plants are produced by cloning which process is most directly involved?
Mitotic cell division is the complex plants that are produced by cloning.
What social advantages and disadvantages does cloning crop plants in tissue culture have?
The social advantages are that we could: grow a large number of plants during a short period of time. This would make them stronger than ever and plants would have more chances of surviving. This method would help people to be able to control the growth and development of their plant This would also allow us to produce the plants even if the climate/weather isn't really suitable for growing one. They could use the equipment again which would make it good in the long run! The social disadvantages of cloning plants are: that all the plants that are made will have the same chances of infections because they all have the same vulnerability. The diversity of plants will decrease. The process will need a lot of time and observation spent on it. It would take time to produce when it's much faster to just grow a plant normally.
Where is cloning used in Australia?
In the production of plants
