Oh I loved this book and I'll just have to dig up my copy and read it again. Thanks for the reminder. I have not been as impressed with her other genre work.
"How quickly do the clones grow, and if they grow at a normal rate, that's all the more damning for part one's narrative, because it all feels like it's taking place immediately, within days and months of each other, and that added to my confusion."
I haven't read the book, but clones do age faster. They also have a host of other problems stemming from the conflict between the cloned DNA and the mitochondrial DNA of the host cell, which is probably why incest played such a role in breeding between the clones. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited through the maternal lineage; it'd make sense for clones to try to keep the host cells as closely related to the cloned DNA as possible.
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I haven't read the book, but clones do age faster. They also have a host of other problems stemming from the conflict between the cloned DNA and the mitochondrial DNA of the host cell, which is probably why incest played such a role in breeding between the clones. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited through the maternal lineage; it'd make sense for clones to try to keep the host cells as closely related to the cloned DNA as possible.
Just a guess, since I haven't read it.
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