Answer to Question #263598 in Genetics for RLB

Question

What is missing in our understanding of plant or animal genetics, to create a new organism artificially? I understand the phases of development, but don’t understand why we cannot take the chemicals of a seedling or embryo and create them artificially? What is still missing? And if we could create artificial life, wouldn’t it solve many of the problems of infertility and botanical flourishing?

Answer 1

Therapeutic cloning creates a line of embryonic stem cells genetically identical to an individual. Reproductive cloning creates a new organism genetically identical to an individual.The other is that it creates an embryo that presumably could be implanted into a woman and grow into a baby.