1. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Is the Cloning Possible?

2. What Were Going to Talk About
The Movie
Cells
What is Cloning
The Two types
How it works
How it relates to the movie
Fact vs. Fiction
The problems with Cloning
Controversy with cloning
Real life success

4. In the Movie: An army of clones All clone copies of original person
All genetically identical to one man
All look the same as one man
Genetically modified to have certain traits
Age double the speed of regular humans
Clones are mass produced by the thousands

5. What is Cloning?
Definition: A cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.

6. What does that mean?
Creation of 2 (or more) organisms that are exactly alike
Look the same
Genetically alike

7. Cells All cells have nucleus
In nuclease is DNA which contains all info to create organism
Chromosomes are organized structure of DNA and protein found in nucleus
Reproductive cell has one set of chromosomes
Regular cell has two sets of chromosomes
Two sets needed for an organism

8. Artificial Embryo Twinning
Low tech version of cloning
Twins are natural cones
Artificial Embryo Twinning mimics natural process
Occurs on petri dish not in body
Separates two early embryo

9. Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT):
High-tech version of cloning
Different approach as Artificial Embryo Twinning same outcome
Nucleus of somatic cell placed in reproductive cell
Because it has 2 sets of chromosomes doesn’t need other reproductive cell
Cell then placed in a surrogate mother
Exact physical and genetic copy of original organism is born

10. Cloning isn't Perfect High failure rate Very inefficient
Takes a very long time
Things cloned usually die soon
Usually have problems with later development
Have many medical issues
Usually are born with much larger organs
Causes blood problems

11. Dolly the Sheep First successful mammal cloning
Got people to notice cloning technology
One of few animals cloned to survive for years
Used SCNT
Exact replica of different female sheep
White sheep born from a black sheep

12. Is it Right to Clone Things?
We don’t know
Could be dangerous
Development of cloned things is uncertain
Don’t know how things would develop
Things cloned usually die young
Humans rights issues
Animal rights issues

13. Is Cloning Right?

14. How Cloning Relates to the Movie
Humans are cloned
Mass produced
One of the 2 ways of cloning (unspecified in the movie) is used to make thousands of clones at once
No failures spoken of in movie

15. Fact vs. Fiction Cloning is a very carful slow process
Difficult to impossible to mass produce clones
Just because they were clones doesn’t mean they age at double the speed
Human cloning is only theoretical. Never actually been tried

17. Review on Cloning
Cloning is creating one or more organisms identical to one another both physically and genetically
2 ways: S.C.N.T and Artificial Embryo Twinning
Very difficult to clone things
Very controversial

18. Review on Cloning (Continued)
Very high failure rate
Things cloned usually have major medical issues
Cloning humans is very controversial
Cloning from Star Wars is very un-realistic

19. Final Conclusion
Not possible to be able to create an army of clones that fast
Clones have unrealistic traits that just because they are cloned doesn’t mean they should have these traits
Not possible with current technology
Maybe possible in future

20. Work Cited Utah genetics cloning basic
How stuff works cloning
Fun trivia
University of Utah problems with cloning
Human genome information
publish your artricles.org
wookieepedia

21. Works Cited (Continued)
Ornl.gov
Learn.genetics.utah.edu
Howstuffworks.com
Stanford.edu