Fish Cloneing

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Can fish be clone?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 77.8%
  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • Total voters
    9

d20monsteroscar20

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May 6, 2005
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Waazz up yall? listen I was thinking this for a while now, but do you guys think that Fish Cloneing is possible? it gives me headache everytime I try to think if is possible or not. but what do you think, and how many Chrommozones does a fish have? if scientists know that then I guess they can come up with a way of cloning fish.

So what do you think, yes or not ? and why?
 
if you can do it with sheep and cats and rats, i don't see why they couldn't do so with fish.
 
I say yes because pretty soon, just about anything will be able to be cloned...the world of science is growing so rapidly...
 
Fish cloning has been around for over 50 years. In highschool, I used a cloning technique on P. palmas called parthenogenesis. The eggs are stripped from a female along with a blood sample. Bear in mind, fish differ from mammals in that they don't produce red blood cells from marrow. Fish blood cells are nucleated, thus self-duplicating. The single set of chromosomes in the unfertilized egg is destroyed (along with the entire nucleus) with a burst of short-wave UV light. A nucleus is extracted from a single blood cell (adult cell with chromosomes from both parent fish) with a heat stretched pipette (hair size tip) and injected into the egg. Pricking the egg membrane "tricks" the egg into checking for additional chromosomes from fertilization <- VERY simplified explanation. The egg detects that it contains both sets of chromosomes (from the adult blood cell nucleus) and begins differentiating/developing.
 
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