MadSci Network: Genetics
Query:

Re: When cloning a human, would the clone be EXACTLY like the original?

Date: Sat Jan 30 14:20:28 1999
Posted By: Jan Witkowski, Faculty. CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 914549345.Ge
Message:

Well, I think we can take it for granted that human beings can be cloned 
and will be cloned in the not-too-distant future.

On the similarities between clone and clonee, think of the human clones we 
have already - identical twins. They developed as embryos in exactly the 
same enivronment at excatly the same time, and they have been brought up in 
the same environment. Yet they differ physically (more or less) and 
emotionally. Although they are more similar to each other than 
non-identical twins, yet identical twins have their own clear personalities 
- they are individual human beings. CLones will be the same. You are 
exactly right on the personality q


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