Uses of micropropagation:

• Preservation of rare plant species
• Mass production of plant with desirable characteristics for commercial use
  • Increase yield 
  • Reproduce plant at a faster rate
  • Cost effective
  • Controlled environment ensures higher success rate in plant formation
• Create disease resistant plant species

Process of cloning mammals:

• An adult female sheep was first cloned to create Dolly the sheep
• The following process was used to create the clone:
  1. Remove the nucleus of an unfertilised egg cell 
     1. Removal of nucleus is called enucleation
  2. Insert the nucleus of a cell from the adult body into the enucleated egg cell 
  3. Stimulate the nucleated egg cell to divide by providing an electric shock 
  4. The nucleated egg cell will undergo mitosis to form an embryo
  5. The embryo is now genetically identical to the parent cell
  6. Insert the embryo in a surrogate mother’s womb once it develops into a ball of cell
  7. The embryo continues development in the womb of the surrogate mother
     1. The rest of the pregnancy proceeds as usual