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Question 26

In conservation efforts to preserve the endangered wild cattle species, the Gaur (Bos gaurus), scientists utilized somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to clone a male Gaur using a domestic cow (Bos taurus) as an egg donor and a surrogate mother.

Describe the scientific steps involved in this SCNT procedure to successfully produce a live-born cloned Gaur calf from a preserved Gaur skin cell.

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  1. IGCSE
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