Plants can make identical copies (clones) of themselves. Many plants have ways of increasing their numbers by asexual reproduction – new plants are created by repeated cell division:
How Dolly the sheep was cloned - higher
The cloning process of 'Dolly the sheep'In this famous example of cloning, an ordinary cell was used to replace the nucleus of an egg cell, so all of Dolly’s cells had identical DNA to the one parent that donated the cell. This form of cloning produced a single genetically identical offspring.
