Academic Integrity: tutoring, explanations, and feedback — we don’t complete graded work or submit on a student’s behalf.

1.What characteristics of plants allow them to be cloned relatively easily, wher

ID: 69653 • Letter: 1

Question

1.What characteristics of plants allow them to be cloned relatively easily, whereas cloning in animals is rare and difficult to achieve?

2.Please check this answer it is missing ...

What are homologous sequences? What is the difference between orthologs and paralogs?

answer :Ortholog: any gene found in two or more species that can be traced to a common ancestor; specif. one of two homologous genes that is descended from a common ancestor, but which has evolved in a different way; also called orthologous gene

paralog: Homologous sequences are paralogous if they were separated by a gene duplication event: if a gene in an organism is duplicated to occupy two different positions in the same genome, then the two copies are paralogous.

Explanation / Answer

Cells in plants are totipotent I.e they have ability to form complete organism where as in case of animals only few cells have this property such as stem cells. This property makes plants more suitable for cloning than animals