How Cloning works ?

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On January 8, 2001, scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., announced the birth of the first clone of an endangered animal, a baby bull gaur (a large wild ox from India and southeast Asia) named Noah. Although Noah died of an infection unrelated to the procedure, the experiment demonstrated that it is possible to save endangered species through cloning.

    For those who doesnt know what 'cloning' is..

Cloning is the process of making a genetically identical organism through nonsexual means. It has been used for many years to produce plants (even growing a plant from a cutting is a type of cloning). Animal cloning has been the subject of scientific experiments for years, but garnered little attention until the birth of the first cloned mammal in 1997, a sheep named Dolly. Since Dolly, several scientists have cloned other animals, including cows and mice. The recent success in cloning animals has sparked fierce debates among scientists, politicians and the general public about the use and morality of cloning plants, animals and possibly humans

Qestion: what my question to you guys is, For how long a cloned individual can survive ? And is it possible that after the birth of clone individual can turn out to be something else like if u clone a cow, what if that cloned baby is no where close to how cow looks like ? other words ( any side effects )

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Have you seen cloned humans? They look horrible. They look like human aborted fetuses. A pretty nastly sight, I tell ya!

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FF: for your question, usually the clone lives shorter than the original. This is because the DNA of the original used to clone has been damaged over the years. So this DNA is used by the clone as 'new' DNA. See it as this, the original when born has perfect DNA, in the course of years damage accumulates.....this damaged DNA is used as 'new' DNA for the clone: hence the clone doesn't live as long as the original.

DHTN: indeed, all 'human' clones thusfar are actually aborted fetuses. Regulation doesn't allow to keep human clones longer than 12 (?) week of gestation. After that time they shud be annihilated. So all human clones you see now are actually fetuses

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^ lol.. :eek: They really are fetuses. whoa! I didn’t know that.

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is it possible for u guys to get me some cloned human's picutre ...i really wanted to see how they look like.. ( they suppose to look like humans cuz of cloning ) but as DHTN said they are horrible ?

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I can’t find any pictures.. but here’s something I found..

http://web.pdx.edu/~tuandang/gallery1.html

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ive already seen those....was just wondering if u know where i can see the pictures of 'cloned humans'

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so when they are done with this can we buy like a personal cloning device? you know somethign like a cd burner

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well for now there are major efforts to making coloning illegal world wide.

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lol.. :hehe: I would like to have one too.