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Why cannot we clone viruses?

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    Cloning research is actively flourishing due to its various usages in several fields like industry, medicine, science, pharmacology, etc. cloning is the production of second generation which is identical to the parent in the phenotype and the genotype of the organism. Cloning in laboratories was stimulated by the cloning of bacteria as they are reproducing asexually by duplicating its genetic material and organelles to produce two daughter cells that are typically identical to the parent cell. Any cell can be cloned, except viruses, this article will be handling the reasons behind this. Cloning already happens in nature, from primitive organisms like bacteria as it is mentioned above to the higher ones like plants. Some Plants can clone itself like tubers, this type of plants’ stem can be reproducing an entire new identical organism in its favorable conditions, like potatoes. This happens due to the existence of the meristem in the potato as it has millions of undiffer...

You have PSEUDO genes !!

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All of us know that we are made of genes, which can control our appearance. Like a building that comprises breaks, and each break is made out of mud, consider these genes are the mud. Genes are complex chemical compounds in somehow can control your apparent traits; e.g. your skin & eye color, till the shape of your smallest toe!  Magnificent, isn't it?! If genes are things that made us have our own shape, How genes could be there any Psuedo ones? Is that even possible?! Yes, it is possible. Researchers had found out that most of the human genome is non-functional forms of genes. In other words, our shape comes from the functional genes that we have. Like gene of the formation of insulin protein to work like the hormone responsible for the blood sugar levels regulation and so on. However, these functional genes are about 5% of the entire genome and the rest are non-functional ones. They are the partial structure of a gene so these genes can’t be translated biologically into a pr...