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Scientists can now clone mammals using a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer. The document outlines how Dolly the sheep was cloned: (1) A cell was taken from the mammary gland of an adult sheep. (2) The nucleus of this cell was transferred into an egg cell whose nucleus had been removed. (3) The reconstructed egg was stimulated to start dividing, developing into an embryo and eventually the cloned sheep Dolly.

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Bio 8.1

Scientists can now clone mammals using a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer. The document outlines how Dolly the sheep was cloned: (1) A cell was taken from the mammary gland of an adult sheep. (2) The nucleus of this cell was transferred into an egg cell whose nucleus had been removed. (3) The reconstructed egg was stimulated to start dividing, developing into an embryo and eventually the cloned sheep Dolly.

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1. 1999/I/1a
Scientists can now propagate mammals by a method called cloning. The diagram below outlines how a
sheep named Dolly was produced by using this method :

(i) Does cell C contain a haploid or diploid set of chromosomes ? Explain your answer. (3 marks)
(ii) Explain why cell D is much smaller in size than cell C. (2 marks)
(iii) Dolly shows the same characteristics as one of the three parents. Which parent is this ? Explain your
answer. (3 marks)
(iv) Is Dolly produced by a sexual process ? Give a reason for your answer. (2 marks)

2. 2005/I/2
Complete the following paragraph with suitable words selected from the list below:
chromosome diploid dominant embryo gamete
haploid heterozygote homozygote meiotic cell division mitotic cell division
mutation protein recessive
Genes are the basic units of inheritance. They are carried on the __(a)___ in the nucleus of a cell. A gene
may exist in different forms called alleles. When an organism contains two different alleles of the same gene,
it is described as a __(b)___ and the allele that expresses itself is said to be __(c)____. During reproduction,
some cells in the sex organs undergo __(d)___. During this process, the alleles in these cells separate from
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each other and every __(e)___ thus formed will posses only one allele for each gene. After fertilization, the
zygote formed will contain alleles occurring in pairs and its chromosome number will become __(f)___.

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