Cloning Cows for Cuba

AVIDLY INTERESTED writes: "You've got to hand it to the Cubans. They have been surviving by hook or by crook since the collapse of Communism without the subsidies the USSR used to afford them. Now, according to this article at The Age they are using the ingenuity of their scientists to clone White Udder, the cow of all cows, that will cover an entire nation in healthy milk moustaches."

Comments

Alternative to cloning

[brejc8]

My grandfather used to work on cross breeding plants to have weak genes.
If you cross bred a weak gene plant with a normal plant then the offspring will inherit nearly all genes from the second plant.

This way when he found a particular wheat plant with very high level of protein he would cross breed it with the weak gene plants in order to reproduce it nearly intact.

This research was quickly forgotten when cloning came along.