Whole Organism Cloning

Glossary

Somatic Cell: A somatic cell is the cell of any living organism that is not the reproductive cell. 

Enucleated Cell: A cell that has no nucleus.

Blastomere: Is the cell that has resulted from the division of the egg after fertilisation during the early embryonic development period.
Transgenic: Is the process from which genetic material had been transferred naturally, or by genetic engineering from one organism to another. 

Totipotency: Is the ability of a single cell to divide and produce the different cells in an organism.

Genome: Is the entire information of an organism’s information, in the DNA.

Karyoplast: A cellular nucleus together with a plasma membrane containing a small amount of cytoplasm.