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· An egg is taken from the 1st cow
· The egg cell nucleus is removed
· A body cell is taken from a second cow
· The body cell's nucleus is put into the egg cell
· The egg cell divides
· The embryo is then put into a third cow (usually the mother who has been chosen to carry the child.)
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThere are not many ethical issues with embryo cloning in cattle but one of them is that it's not natural.
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What happens to form the embryo when cows are bred naturally?
The embryo is formed when the sperm from a bull attaches itself to the egg or ovum of the cow. The embryo is formed not only from the cow being bred naturally, but also when she is artificially inseminated.
What are donor cows?
Cows that have been selected to hold the embryo of another cow until birth in an Embryo-Transfer program.
Why would anyone clone a cow?
to help care world hunger
How cloning is used in cattle breeding?
Cloning is used in cattle breeding by taking an embryo of a donor cow (being a female of top breeding quality) and making it into a copy of that cow with the same desired qualities. Cloning is also naturally done by producing fraternal twins in cattle.
How many gallons of milk does a cloned cow produce?
It varies in how many times the cow is cloned but usually 2 for health reasons. the original and the clone
What are some positives things about animal cloning?
If cloning became cheap we could mass clone our farm animals to help bring the prices down for what they produce. example-clone a sheep you have more wool, clone a cow you have more beef
How were the first cow cloned?
The information is unknown how the first cloned cow was made. The first known cloned cow was named Gene and was cloned on February 7, 1997.
How do you clone myself?
You'll need a micro-pipette a petrie dish, an electrical current source a good microscope and newly impregnated cow. Then you need to extract an embryo from the cow and remove its genetic nucleus under the microscope with the micro pipette and then extract and inject your own dna from any old cell from your own body and then inject your dna into the cow embryo, then zap it with a bit of current, wait a little while until you get a blastocyst in the petrie dish, and then smiply embed the cell back into the cows uterus and wait 9 months. If you're a lady you could introduce the blastocyst into your own uterus. hope this helps and good luck let me know how it goes. cheers
How many years does a female have calves?
That all depends on how long she lives to, and whether she is a donor cow in terms of embryo transfer.
How many calves can a cow produce in her lifetime?
A cow can have anywhere from one to 20 calves in her lifetime, depending on how productive she is and how long she is able to stay in the herd to produce those calves. On average, a cow will produce eight calves in her lifetime. Cows that are used for embryo transfer can produce up to twice as many calves in her life time than she can by her own doing. The record number of calves a cow has had in her lifetime is 39.
Can a cow have 42 calves in a year?
Yes, through embryo transfer. While she won't physically carry the calves to term in her body, her embryos can be placed in a recipient cow. This allows the original "donor" cow to produce multiple calves for her genetics every year.
Can a human fetus really be brought to full term in a cow's uterus?
No. The human embryo would die because it cannot attach itself to the uterine wall of the cow due to the fact that the placenta of a human is much different from the placenta of a cow, and that a human and a cow are genetically very different from each other.
