CLONING Cloning means placing a
gene inside a microorganism that will reproduce itself and obtain a large number
of copies of that
gene.
During the 70''''s, scientists working in the area ?f creating new animals removed one of the nuclei of a recently-fertilized egg so that the resulting embryo would carry the genetic features of only one of the parents. This gave offspring totaI1y identical to the father or to the mother.
Genetic engineering has raised much debate throughout the world. For the distant future, one can think of totally programming an individual, each characteristic being fabricated.
By Fausto Fabio de Araujo