Re: Is it possible to clone 5 people to make 1 body.

Hello Zoli,

Thanks for your interesting question.  Although most people think of humans 
or other animals (like Dolly) when they hear the word "clone", we scientists 
actually use the term more broadly.  To us, a clone can be any of the 
following:  1.a group of genetically identical cells descended from a single 
common ancestor, i.e. a colony of bacteria grown from a single bacterial 
cell.  2. a copy of a DNA sequence (a gene, for instance). 3. an organism 
derived asexually from a single ancestor (plant or animal).  The common 
denominator to all of these definitions is that a true clone must be an 
exact genetic replica of a SINGLE progenitor (organism/cell/piece of DNA).  
Therefore, an organism created by combining genetic information taken from 
five different organisms (Joe, Mary, John, Katy and Fred, for example) 
wouldn't be a considered a clone.  

Any current cell biology or molecular biology text will have information on 
the type of clone described in the first and second definitions, above.  
However, I suspect that you're more interested in the prospect of cloning 
humans.  There is a ton of information on the web, a lot of it consisting of 
ethical concerns abut human cloning.  The reference below provides 
accessible and fairly unbiased information on human cloning, and has links 
to many other sites.  If this subject interests you, I would encourage you 
to find out more about it.  If you have further questions after doing a 
little research of your own, please contact us again!

Warm regards, 

Jen
 http://cac.psu.edu/
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