Playing God

[fixnwrtr]

I'll take Robin's suggestion first on human cloning.

I'm not sure if he wants to know whether I am for or against human cloning or what I think the future of cloning is, so I'll touch on both subjects.

Dolly, the first living cloned sheep, had quite a few health problems, among them severe arthritis and a lung disease. She lived only six years and in

Comments

[polymale]

I think there's a lot of ignorance and misconceptions amongst most of the public as to what cloning is

[fixnwrtr]

Identical twins share the same DNA but they are not clones. Cloning does not involve sperm in any way. Cloning takes cells from one source and puts it into an ovum from which all genetic material has been removed. The newly filled ovum is then grown and differentiates into whatever it has been programmed to be

[polymale]

What you say is true, yet does it matter in a functional sense? You still end up with two (or more) individuals with the same DNA, both in (current) cloning and in twins. Either way, they're clones.

Note that I said identical twins, not fraternal, siamese, or any of the other variations or malformations, which would not be clones.

[fixnwrtr]

Siamese twins are identical. And identical twins of any type are not clones. There is the addition of sperm to create a third individual whereas a clone is strictly created without sperm. That is the true definition of clone.

[elenajosette]

what i was most shocked to see.. perhaps because it was so domesticated.. was the cloned cat.. that actually had successful offspring :O
I wonder if the offspring are viable.. i do not remember in my anthro class whether they said they were or not