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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
In recent decades, scientists have learned to manipulate that cardinal characteristic of life, reproduction, with powerful techniques like artificial insemination, contraception, embryo transfer, cryopreservation, and cloning by nuclear transfer. While these technologies often are used for practical applications and basic research, they have another profound intrinsic quality, which is to engender deep-seated thinking about important biological questions. Examples that stimulate such thinking include a goat's giving birth to her identical twin sister via splitting embryos, cryopreservation, and embryo transfer; that a parthenogenetic embryo can never become an animal but can become a genetic mother via an aggregation chimera; or that a somatic cell can become the sole genetic parent of a calf via cloning. In this paper, I illustrate this thought-stimulating quality by considering contributions of reproductive technologies to understanding, if not completely answering, several important biological questions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0093-691X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
53
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
187-94
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Reproductive biotechnology and "big" biological questions.
pubmed:affiliation
Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review