The Energon Pub

[Insurgent]

I had a disscussion with my science teacher about cloning during a lesson a few years back. It was a really boring experiment I wanted to get out of, but that's beside the point.

To clone someone, you don't need all this fancy equipment seen in 6th day.

You remove a cell from the person you wnat to clone, best from the intestine lining as that holds the most DNA.

You take an egg and remove the DNA coding from the centre of it, leaving you with a blank egg. You then insert the DNA from your 'participant' into the egg and place it in the womb of a fertile woman, preferably when she is ovulating.

If it sticks (and you can place it in the wall of the uterus so it will), she will carry the baby to birth and voila! A new baby you.

However, it is important to note that this person will be genetically identical to you, but it will NOT be you. It will have a different upbringing, different experiances, and so develop a different personality. But it would be interesting to see how you would turn out leading a different life path.

The only way it would be identical to you is if you could clone your neural pathways, and that is something that can not be done.












Yet.

[Zombie Starscream]

One problem I see with cloning is what's always shown with it in Scifi shows. We lack the technology to prevent eventual degredation.

sorry, what eventual degradation?

Things degrade over time. The way it's usually looked at is if you make a copy, of a copy, of a copy, eventually down the line, the copies end up having problems. It happens in copy machines with paper.

I guess it would be the genetic equivilant of entropy, correct?

[Tammuz]

One problem I see with cloning is what's always shown with it in Scifi shows. We lack the technology to prevent eventual degredation.

sorry, what eventual degradation?

Things degrade over time. The way it's usually looked at is if you make a copy, of a copy, of a copy, eventually down the line, the copies end up having problems. It happens in copy machines with paper.

I guess it would be the genetic equivilant of entropy, correct?

except most organism's(with the exception of viruses) DNA has genes for DNA repair

[angel prime]

If mass cloneing happens all the clones would have the same metabolilc rate and the same imunesystem and its only with mutation that we adapt and move forward