Chapter 12.2, Problem 1LO

Summary Introduction

To distinguish:

Between the therapeutic and the reproductive cloning.

Introduction:

Therapeutic cloning is the other name for the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer. In this technique there is host cell which has nucleus of some other cell. This technique is performed in normal or general body cells also called the soma cells. Reproductive cloning is being performed in the sex cells or gonads with an aim to obtain genetically identical daughter organism.