Q78. What is the application of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology?
a) Production of biolarvicides
b) Manufacture of biodegradable plastics
c) Reproductive cloning of animals
d) Production of organisms free of diseases
The correct answer is Option 3.
- Cloning is the process of creating a replica of an entire organism, any other living part, or a cell. Hence, Option 3 is correct.
- On July 5, 1996, Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh used Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology for the first time to clone the sheep “Dolly,” the first mammal to be cloned.
- The recent news about buffalo cloning using adult somatic cells from proven males or quality females at the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) has sparked a revolution by multiplying superior buffalo germplasm in-country.
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