Cloning

Cloning

Taking cuttings

Gardeners can take cuttings from good parent plants and plant them to produce identical copies of the parent plant. These plants can be produced quickly and cheaply

Tissue culture

A few plant cells are scraped off the old plant and put into a growth medium with hormones and they grow into new clone plants. Using this you can make new plants very quickly, in little space and you can do it all year round.

Embryo transplants

• Sperm cells are taken from the prize bull and egg cells are taken from the prize cow
• The sperm are used to artificially fertilise an egg cell
• An embryo develops and is split many times
• These cloned embryos are implanted into lots of other cows where they…