Cloning 2
Title: Cloning 2
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 944 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cloning 2
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 944 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cloning
Of all the terms coined by scientists which have entered popular vocabulary, 'clone' has
become one of the more emotive. Strictly speaking a clone refers to one or more offspring
derived from a single ancestor, whose genetic composition is identical to that of the
ancestor. No sex is involved in the production of clones, and since sex is the normal means
by which new genetic material is introduced during procreation, clones have no choice
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wine, the supply of rubber and the fruit harvest as it is to
the variety of an English country garden. Furthermore, natural cloning is not confined to
plants: microbes and some insects frequently propagate themselves by producing
genetically identical offspring without recourse to sex. The toothless mammal, the
armadillo, gives birth not to identical twins but to genetically identical octuplets: every litter
a batch of eight clones. There is nothing a priori unnatural about cloning.