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Fusion cell cloning and adult cell cloning

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What's the difference between fusion cell cloning and adult cell cloning?

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haha, I just read the thread title as fetish...perhaps I should stop.

anyway, back to the question at hand. From an AQA teachers forum thing

The Chief Examiner for Biology has been consulted on this matter and his reply is below.

"The term is included in the specification to allow us to set 'cutting edge' contexts in which embryonic cells do NOT have their nuclei replaced, thereby overcoming some ethical objections.

Candidates will NOT be required to distinguish between the two processes."

In effect fusion cell cloning and somatic (adult cell) cloning are to be taken as the same thing- for the context of the examination. However, in the real world cell fusion is a technique used in stem cell research-instead of the nucleus being injected into the egg, an adult stem cell is used, and an electric shock fuses the membrane between cell and egg. This is of course taking in faith that the information found by the teachers is correct.

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