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3 - Reproduction Without Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Giuseppe Fusco  and
Alessandro Minelli
Giuseppe Fusco
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Alessandro Minelli
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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Summary

On February 1997 the birth was announced of a sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell of a mother individual. The event attracted enormous media attention. Dolly, born on 5 July 1996, actually had three ‘mothers’: one provided the egg (whose nucleus was removed), another the nucleus with the DNA picked out from a somatic cell (i.e. a cell of the body not specialized for reproduction), while the third mother carried the cloned embryo in her womb until parturition.

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asexual reproductionclonedevelopmentecologyevolutionfertilizationgametegeneticshermaphroditismlife cycleparental careparthenogenesispollinationsecondary sexualcharactersself-fertilizationsexsex determinationsexual reproductionsexual selectionspore
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Understanding Reproduction , pp. 49 - 63
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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