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Cloning In The Pro Rodeo Hall Of Fame

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For years and years the practice of trying to raise and breed the best type of stock or plants possible. For example, the ancient Egyptians have spent years and years trying to breed the best type of Arabian breed horses that could handle the heat and go without water for large amounts of time. All the while having the speed and stamina to accomplish whatever they desired. Also the modern day farmer trying to plant a type of corn that can withstand many different weather conditions and still produce many ears of corn from a single stalk. So as time has showed we have tried and tried to accomplish the goal of better our livestock and plants to get ahead in society. That’s were cloning comes in. According to some, cloning has the chance to …show more content…

Scamper won a record 10 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world championships from 1984-93 and helped make James the first million-dollar cowgirl and the all-time leading money winner in barrel racing. Scamper is the only barrel racing horse in the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame. Scamper was a plain bay gelding picked out of Charmayne’s father’s pen of colts by herself, proving to the world that Scamper was no ordinary horse. The fact that he did not have the fancy breeding as many of the other competitive barrel horses set him apart from all the rest of the horses at that time. Making him a perfect candidate to be a part of the new cloning program. Although Scamper was a very important breakthrough in the cloning of animals, he was not the first. The first mammal to be intentionally cloned from an adult cell was a sheep called Dolly in 1996. Dolly was created using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer. The nucleus is the part of the cell that stores genetic material. To produce Dolly, scientists used an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep. They had not found a way to 'reprogram' the udder cells - to keep them alive but stop them growing – which they achieved by changing the growth medium. Then they injected the cell into an unfertilized egg cell which had had its nucleus removed, and made the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. The unfertilized egg cell came from a Scottish Blackface ewe that dolly was used to be born. When they finally had managed to fuse the nucleus from the adult white sheep cell with the egg cell from the black-faced sheep, they needed to make sure that the final cell would develop into an embryo. They cultured it for six or seven days to see if it would be divided and developed normally, before implanting it into a surrogate mother, another Scottish Blackface ewe. Even though Dolly had a

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