Cloning was once a thing of sciencefiction only but now the

Cloning was once a thing of science-fiction only, but now the process has become an element of science-fact. Explain the process of cloning in your own words, and suggest one possible benefit of this type of technology.

Solution

cloningprocess:process of production of many genetically identical copies of an individual by asexual reproduction.it may occur naturally but techniques have been developed which allow the process to be carried out artifically.the first cloning sucessful of a vertebrate was carried out in the late by dr.j gurdon at oxford university.

the process does not occur naturally in vertebrates. it is carried out by taking a cell from the intestine or skin of a frog and intoducing its nucleus in to an egg cell whose own nucleus had been destroyed by ultra violet radiation. he was able to grow a tad pole, which in turn grew in to a frog identical parent from which the nucleus is trans planted.

benefit:

1)it is used to reverse heart attacks.