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(Unfertilized eggs contain only the mother's half of genes; by adding the genes from an adult mammary cell--which has both its mother's and father's genes--the egg cell then had the full amount of DNA found in adult sheep cells.)
Human beings have between 50,000 and 150,000 genes--the number is hotly debated among scientists--and many diseases can be linked to defects in one or more of these genes.