This is young Dolly (left) with her surrogate mother. This unique pair was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland.

~To Clone or Not to Clone~

Cloning- Is the production of a group of genetically identical cells or organisms all descended from a single individual.

Clone is also spelled clon.
MacIntosh Apples are products of cloning.
In the second half of the twentieth century, the possibility of animal cloning arose. They first successfully cloned amphibians before sheep.
Many fruit and nut trees and ornamental plants represent clones.
Many things are cloned naturally such as: algae, mosses, and plants.
A tumor is the formation of a clone of malignant cells.
Some artificial cloning techniques include: plant breeding and grafting.
Cloning has caused more controversy in the last decade than any other science issue.
On February 27, 1997 they first successfully cloned Dolly, a lamb, using cells from an adult sheep.
Twenty European nations have signed an agreement to sharply restrict human genetic engineering and effectivly ban cloning.
President Clinton has rushed to ban federal funding of human cloning research and asked private researchers to stop such research in the near future.
A clone is an exact replica of its source- other than its personality.

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