5th April 2003, 2:31 PM
Except that cloning is still a long way from being perfected. Take Dolly the sheep for example. She was considered one of the most successful clones and she died of cancer after about half of the normal life span of a sheep.
My theory: Cloning will take years to be perfected or perhaps will never be perfected. Why you ask? When you make a clone you take genetic material from one organism to make a clone with the exact same genetic. The problem here is that you are taking cells that have already aged to a certain point. Let's say you take genes from a 32 year old man. The clones cells would essentially be that of a 32 year old man.
What does all that have to with this discussion? Well...actually nothing...
My theory: Cloning will take years to be perfected or perhaps will never be perfected. Why you ask? When you make a clone you take genetic material from one organism to make a clone with the exact same genetic. The problem here is that you are taking cells that have already aged to a certain point. Let's say you take genes from a 32 year old man. The clones cells would essentially be that of a 32 year old man.
What does all that have to with this discussion? Well...actually nothing...
Sometimes you get the scorpion.