Saturday, November 17, 2012

A special Mice Family

Weeks ago, in the university of Texas little baby mice came to life. But those mouse didn't have a family similar to other mouse families, they had 2 dads. Normally that would be biologically impossible, males don't have ovules. So how did does little mice come to life? The answer is that they created  a female clone of one of the two male mice, this clone being now a female was able to have ovule that have the original male mouse' DNA. Then they made the other male mouse reproduce with the clone female mouse and...... TADA many healthy and cute little mice were born!!!!  But how is that useful you might ask? There are so many endangered species that disapeared under the eyes of scientist that where enable to make them reproduce since they didn't have any partner from the gender!!!

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