Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] cloning

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If the crooked little finger is a phenotypic _expression_ of a genotypic encoding, it would absolutely be present in your clone.  There is none of the random recombinant sampling you experience when the DNA encoded into the sperm or egg.  WYSIWYG.  In a clone, any phenotypic _expression_ would be the exact same.

Vern Green wrote:

I would argue that a clone would indeed not act the same. Most of what makes us who we are is through our experiences. We act the way we do based on external influence. My character is in no small part developed from interaction with my father, which no clone of me will have access to.

 

Even in terms of the way I look. A clone might resemble me in many ways, but there are no guarantees that certain genetic traits would crop up. For instance, I have a crooked little finger. I learned in biology (one of the only things I learned in biology) that this is a genetic trait, similar in nature to the "widow's peak". There is no guarantee that a clone of me would have that same trait. Some of the scientists on the list would correct me if I am wrong.

 

Most certainly, the scars I have, the crooked nose I have from a old break would not be present in a clone.

 

On 10/5/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Rick wrote:

> That's gonna be pretty tough when the evangelical types consistently
> call for banning cloning.
>
> I wonder what type of theological debate it would spark to clone a
> human? Say, for example, some Korean scientist cloned an adult human and
> the resulting clone behaved exactly as the original...or, if it behaved
> completely different. Isn't there some interesting intellectual debate
> to be had on that topic regarding souls?


I don't know if the planets issue is related to the cloning issue, but I
can say that we know that clones will not behave identically.  We know
this because so-called identical twins (actually called monozygotic or MZ
twins) are clones of one another (identical nuclear DNA except for somatic
mutations) and they are not identical in behavior.  They have correlations
of about .40 on some personality tests and correlations in IQ of around
.70.  So they are similar but not exactly alike.

Mike

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