surrogate- a person deputizing for another specific role or office
pneumonia- lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, where the air sacs fill up with pus and become a solid.
harvesting- remove the (cells, tissue, or organ) from a person or animal for transplantation or experimental purposes.
This article was about the first successful cloning of dogs. In South Korean got cloned a 3 year old Afghan hound. The researchers harvest an egg after the ovulation and then stimulated the egg with electricity or chemicals to make it divide into a pertri dish. Then they removed each harvest egg's nucleus and replaced it with the nucleus from a skin cell from the Afghan hound. Before they put it into the dogs body it spent 4 hours outside. Out of 123 dogs only 3 became pregnant. One miscarried , the other died of pneumonia, and the last one was alive and healthy as a horse, and it just so happened that he was the 1st dog to be cloned and stay alive.
I liked this article because I've always wondered if they could clone dogs, come to find out they can. It was also interesting how they had to clone a dog different than horses, rats or sheep. In all this to say I learned alot about the cloning of dogs and that it can be a difficult task and how it was a major accomplishment to finally get a dog cloned.
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