Monkeying around!
Nov. 15th, 2007 by Al 
When I heard that scientist had a 9 year old monkey cloned and drew it stem cells,it send a chill down my spine.Cloning technology is being funded with petro energy if one is able to see beyond the superficial lab test.Back in year 2000. a monkey named tetra was a clone too
Tetra was produced by a process called ‘embryo splitting’:
a)An egg from a mother and a sperm fro the father was used to create a fertilised egg.
b)After the embryo grows into eight cells, researchers split into 4 identical embryos each consists of 2 cells.
c)The four embryos then implanted into surrogate mothers hence a single embryo becomes 4 embryos, all genetically identical.
This technology given our energy scarce world is a mixed blessings, will it used to clone cheap labour army after fossil decline or will it strictly limited to animal experiment to benefit mankind?
Btw the monkey was named tetra cause it’s the only 1 out of the fourth that survived.
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