Genetics: Analysis and Principles 5th Edition by Robert Brooker

Exercise 6

As described in Chapter 21, researchers have been able to clone mammals by fusing a cell having a diploid nucleus (i.e., a somatic cell) with an egg that has had its nucleus removed
a. With regard to maternal effect genes, would the phenotype of such a cloned animal be determined by the animal that donated the egg or by the animal that donated the somatic cell Explain
b. Would the cloned animal inherit extranuclear traits from the animal that donated the egg or by the animal that donated the somatic cell Explain
c. In what ways would you expect this cloned animal to be similar to or different from the animal that donated the somatic cell Is it fair to call such an animal a "clone" of the animal that donated the diploid nucleus