Can clones reproduce?
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Yes of course they can. Didn't you read the one before mine!
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No, the animals would have to be very closely related species. For example, a sheep and a goat, a dog and a wolf, and sure, probably a horse and a zebra.\n\nIn fact, this has been done in several cases to revive a seriously endangered species. While I forget what type of animal it was, there was only a single one left on earth, so they cloned it using somatic cell nuclear transfer and implanted the "fertilized" zygote into a member of a closely related species. That species then gave birth to the cloned individual of the endangered species.
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Not exactly clear on your question, but I think it's yes.  For those organisms that don't exchange anything and just produce asexually, they don't have sex and they just split into 2 identical copies.
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Some people claim they have already done it (but they were French cultists and there was no reliable evidence). It can theoretically be done but there are a lot of unknowns. Dolly the sheep aged very rapidly because the dna of her chromosomes was already old when she was created. Ethically, there are lots of potential problems. For example, rich people might try to achieve some kind of immortality by cloning themselves but this is problematic if that person is a male because only the nucleus of the cell will be used ... the rest of the egg will have to come from a woman and the clone will not be identical to the donor.
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Depends what ones views with bioethics are. \n\nIf you're an evolutionist, the question shouldn't be "do you want to be cloned" but rather "should you be cloned"? Cos if you keep producing the same genetic material which is what you're essentially doing with cloning, how would that increase your survival as an organism in the wild?
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The process that you are refering to is called parthenogenesis.  Evolutionarily it is a bad idea.  It produces clones of the mother.  Cloning is bad because you produce genetically identical offspring and if a disease comes or the environment changes, you do not have survive as a population.  If it kills one, it kills all.  All sexually reproducing animals have the advantage of unique offspring with differing abilities/disabilities.\nTo answer your question:  yes, but that doesn't mean I agree with it.  Scientists can already remove the incomplete nucleus (haploid) of an egg and replace it with a complete nucleus (diploid).  Quite possibly, a woman could give birth to her own clone.  Scientists could also possibly find a way for two women to use their own haploid nuclei to produce and diploid egg.  Yay for the lesbian lovers.  Bad for the christian conservatives.  I'm not saying I agree with this all, just relaying the facts.
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Despite the previous answer, there is no reason to think parthengenesis is impossible in humans.  All it would take is a mistake in meisosis where the nucleus did not duplicate and separate and you would have an egg identical to the mother ready for implantation.\n\nThe difficulties that affect cloning would not be an issue.
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Cheetahs aren't clones.  They are, however, genetically very similar to each other, more so than most other species.  In fact, there is so little variation among cheetahs that tissue can be grafted from one cheetah to any other cheetah and they won't reject it, even without the immunosupressent drugs given to human transplant patients.  But there is a little genetic variation.\n\nThe lack of genetic variability among cheetahs is the result of something that biologists refer to as the founders effect.  This occurs as the result of a population bottleneck, when most of the population disappears as the result of a natural disaster, or a change in environmental conditions that most individuals are not able to survive.  This is what happened to cheetahs at some point in relatively recent history.  The cheetah population was reduced to just a handful of individuals.\n\nOver time, the species either dies out entirely, or makes a comeback.  In the case of cheetahs, they came back.  However, all the cheetahs in existences today decended from this small number of individuals several generations ago.  That means that all modern cheetahs are closely related.  It's sort of like they're all cousins.  That's why there is so little genetic variation among cheetahs.\n\nOf course, there's also the theory that it's all a big government cover-up :)
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Mitosis produces two cells which are genetically identical to the original one. There is no exchange of genes between two organisms, and so mitosis is a type of asexual reproduction.
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Let it be known that binary fissin is not the same as cloning, in cloning you grow a brand new identical copy of thenoriginal from just the DNA, in binary fission, the organism splits in two and each half takes one half of the DNA it contains, forming new DNA strands by the half that is intact. A very small difference and you get the same result. I also don't believe the cloning would be considered a form of asexual reproduction, but I can't come up with any good arguments, so will only state what I feel without proof.
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Some plants reproduce vegetatively.  This means they send out runners or "pups" which will grow into new plants.  Other plants will have parts such as leaves or stems which, if they fall off the mother plant, will produce adventitious roots and grow into a new plant.  The drawback to this vegetative reproduction is that it is the same as cloning and it does not result in any genetic diversity (in some specialized niches this may be an advantage).
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Investigate cloning. Clone some plants
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Human cloning is practically possible. That is ,it can be done. But the actual human cloning is at present; illegal.\nAt the same time animal cloning has not even been perfected. Only 1 or 2 offsprings are gotten from about 100 experiments.
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Here are some ideas for you:\n\n"Decline in genetic diversity. \nTaking nature into our own hands. \nReligious and moral reasons. \nPhysical problems, such as birth defects. \nPossibility of mental and emotional problems of the clone. "
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If this were possible which it is not then what you would have is spontaneous cloning.  The offspring would not only be female it would be an exact duplicate of the mother.  There is no genetic material available in human females to reproduce anything other than a clone without fertilization.
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won't happen, parthenogenetic offspring are genetically identical to their parent, i.e. female
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clones are exact copies of the mother cell. clones from a single cell are called monoclonal. this term is often used in immunity. EG: monoclonal antibodies. As for panarians i dont know what is it? plz explain your question better.