A biological question for biologist and other scientific types.

[JoshsMelon]

Cloning. just an uneducated guess from a right handed person

lol yah, cloning will create the same genotype in the outcome person, but this does not always equate into a phenotypic resemblance. the same code may be used to create the offspring host, but it is subject to many things (such as differences in the availability/delivery of nutrients during gestation) and can turn out quite differently than the original.

[armbarchris]

Even that's assuming there are no mutations, which is nearly impossible to garrentee.

[JoshsMelon]

heh there's not much room for mutations in cloning, since the creation of the embryo is controlled. mutations usually occur when the original blue print of the code is altered during synthesis of the parental gametes (small little packs of information don't always get piled exactly right!!) and the mRNA goes about sorting the chromosomes according to the new blue print.

[Kailrik]

I can break reality right now. But I won't unless asked.

I can make a complete, exact clone without any previous thought, action or even imagination! And it isn't a period.

[JoshsMelon]

do it!!! let the army of kailric's feast upon the plunders of the world!

[Kailrik]

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[JoshsMelon]

i think you may just be up for a nobel prize, sir!

[Kailrik]

Why do people like those ascii facepalms? I got rep last time and now I am up for nobel prize for cloning them!

[JoshsMelon]

it seems like every question we answer spawns a few new ones!

[Kailrik]

Indeed.

Like this one-

"You ever wonder why we're here?"

The guy answers with a big long thing about how we might have been tests, freak accidents or maybe a God really is out there.

The asker then looks at the guy and says "No, here. In this box canyon in the middle of nowhere?"

((This is a common set-up, though I took mine from Red-vs-blue.