Recipe for a human clone.

How to make your very own clone.
-What you will need:

-Human Tissue - Human Body cells from the individual who will be cloned.
-An unfertilised human egg from a donor - this genetic information will not be used and so the offspring will be a clone of the other 'parent'.
-Media for the embryo to develop
-Lab Equipment - e.g petri dishes, microscopes, something that can be used to cut a nucleus out of a cell or other similar functions (for example an enzyme)

This is the basic process of creating a human clone without going into too much detail.

This process of human cloning is not practiced today because of ethical reasons, although other animals have been cloned in the past:

Dolly the Sheep

This is Dolly the Sheep, a famous case of when a large animal has been cloned.
Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell and was born on the 5th of July 1996.The method that was used to conceive Dolly used exactly the same type of cloning as the one above with sheep cells/enucleated egg cells instead of human cells.

In the future cloning should be used much more frequently as the technology advances - with aspects of genetic engineering this could also create animals which are different to their everyday counterpart and can be useful to humans. Examples of this are pigs with humans hearts which can be used to farm human hearts so that a donor system is no longer needed. Also animals like a goat with a protein for spider silk can also be made through aspects of genetic engineering and cloning which can make large amounts of the silk.

This was only a short post about the possibilities of cloning and how it is achieved so I may post another segment later on expanding these ideas, thanks for reading - Chris.