Why use different cytoplasm for cloning

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Cloning is done in this way (image.jpg)
But why they used another cytoplasm...?
And does the cytoplasm differe from one individual to another...?
 
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  • Diagram of somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning: a donor cell nucleus from a sheep's udor cell is fused with an enucleated egg cell from an adult female sheep, then the embryo is placed in a foster mother and develops into the cloned lamb Dolly.
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An ovum and a donor cell are very different types of cell. The completely nucleus is placed in a denucleated ovum to create what is essentially a zygote that will have the correct cell biology to go on and develop into a full organism.
 
I think the OP is trying to ask why the host egg cell was taken from a different species of sheep and not from the same species or even the same animal from which the donor nucleus was obtained.

I don't have the answer atm; need to do some research...