6(d)
6(d) Cloning
4 specification points in sub-topic 6(d).
Specification points
6.17B6.18B6.19B6.20B
6.17B: Micropropagation
Micropropagation: growing new plants from small pieces of tissue on a sterile nutrient medium.
6.18B: Commercial use of micropropagation
Why growers use micropropagation to make many identical plants quickly.
6.19B: Cloning mammals
How mammals such as Dolly the sheep are cloned by nuclear transfer.
6.20B: Cloned transgenic animals and human proteins
How cloned transgenic animals make human proteins in their milk.