Eyes of Nye – Cloning.

Name_____________________

1. What is the first clone you see ? __________________

2. A clone is a living thing genetically _______________ to another living thing.

3. Should we make human clones? Think about this. Answer later with your thought out reasons.

4. We could also use cloning to rebuild or repair ______________ or cure genetic _____________.

5. Clones are offspring produced without _______________.

6. Asexual reproduction means that the organism comes from a single ____________________

7. In Mundo Mundo the women says that the clone will look like her but may not _________ like her. This is
because genes and your environment effect who you are.

8. All Cells that are not sex cells are called _____________ cells.

9. To clone through somatic cell nuclear transfer, the ______________ is taken out of an egg cell and replaced
with the nucleus from a somatic cell. It is then given a jolt of electricity and put back in a ____________.
Finish drawing the steps:

Take out Take out

egg cell somatic cell egg cell w/ different nucleus

10. Dolly the sheep was born on the ___________ try.

11. If we have this much trouble with animals, should we try cloning on humans? Think about this. Answer at
the end. Give your reasons.

12. Name one concern about cloning that was listed on the screen? __________________________________
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13. Why won't scientists guess wildly about what clones be like? ___________________________________
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14. What does a sea squirt have in common with a human? ________________________________________

15. Most of our genes are turned ____________ because they have made the body part they were responsible
for.

16. Dolly died at the age of ___________ because scientists think the nucleus was too ____________.

17. Why does Mr. Sanders think Reproductive cloning is a bad idea? _________________________
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18. What are the two controversies for reproductive cloning.
a) The source of _______________.

b) The destruction of ________________.

19. The Scientists were for therapeutic cloning (making cells to fight disease) and against _________________
cloning.

20. An embryo is a ball of ___________ that is growing and dividing.

21. Stem cells have not become all the _________________cells of your body.

22. What is wrong with the rat? ______________________________________________________________

23. How do you think he got that injury? ______________________________________________________

24. The rat that was injected with stem cells is now able to do what? ________________________________
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25. Would you want a sick relative who is paralyzed (can't move arms or legs) to be able to have the treatment
provided by therapeutic cloning if it could make them better? _____________________________________

26. What does the politician think about stem cell research? ______________________________________

27. From the street interviews: Which argument do you agree with? Circle One.
a) Women have lots of eggs that they will never use. It is okay for a women to donate/sell her eggs if she wants
to and it helps the research in therapeutic cloning which has the potential to cure disease.

b)Women should not donate or sell their eggs because each egg has the potential if fertilized to become a
human being?

28. What does a bioethicist do? _____________________________________________________________

29. Draw a human embryo?

30. What is the first disease that the ethicist think therapeutic cloning will treat ?__________________

31. Do you think the tiny cluster of cells in an embryo are worth more than a life of a person who is already
alive? __________________________________________________________?

32. We all have the power to effect laws with the vote? What does Bill want you to do with the information
you learned? __________________________________