Introduction There are a great amount of living things across the Earth with one common theme, that is that they are all made up of cells. ... DNA carries the instructions for cell division and also controls cell growth. ... However prokaryotic cells such as bacteria are smaller and much more simply structured (Fig 3) They lack a nucleus and therefore have no chromosomal DNA, instead their genetic information is stored in plasmids, a double strand of DNA which is capable of replication independently. ... They do this by prevention of DNA being replicated, breaking down the cell wall or prevent...

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What Is Cloning There are three types of cloning that exist, reproductive cloning, DNA cloning, and therapeutic cloning. The American Heritage Dictionary has three different definitions for cloning. 1) A cell, group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell. 2) An organism descended asexually from a single ancestor, such as a plant produced by layering or a polyp produced by budding. 3) A DNA sequence, such as a gene, that is transferred from one organism to...

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Important Facts the smallest unit of life is the cell instructions for development are contained in DNA collectively, all of the chemical processes in a cell are called metabolism producers often obtain energy from the sun homeostasis refers to the ability to maintain a constant internal environment cells in domains archaea and eubacteria lack nucleii plants are multicellular producers an educated guess might be called a hypothesis science is based on evidence philosophy is not a step in the scientific method an atom is the smallest unit of substance that retains the properties of the subst...

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