7.2 Pluripotent Stem Cells

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Steps of cloning
Induction, cloning, fertilisation, parthenogenesis
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Advantage of embryonic stem cells
Can grow indefinitely, easier to obtain
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Disadvantage of embryonic stem cells
Involves destruction of embryos, can give rise to many different structures
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Reproductive cloning
To produce genetically identical individuals
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Therapeutic cloning
Creating a cloned embryo to produce embryonic stem cells with same dna as donor cell
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How does therapeutic cloning work?
nucleus transferred into an enucleated egg, cultured into an early embryo, differentiated into desired cell type, transplanted back into the patient