Can you have a baby with your clone?
No, not at all. A clone produces offspring by sexual reproduction just like any other animal. A farmer or breeder can use natural mating or any other assisted reproductive technology, such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization to breed clones, just as they do for other farm animals.
Can a clone of a man be a woman?
Yes. Any male can impregnate any female. But like identical twins, clones are always the same gender because they have the same genetic material. And two people with the same gender cannot reproduce.
Would a human clone be exactly the same?
A human clone would be the genetic identical twin, a generation or more younger, of the donor (not the surrogate mother) who provided the nucleus. Even if you were to clone yourself several times, you would not be able to create the same person each time because every human life, no matter how conceived, is unique.
Does a clone have the same DNA as the original?
Monozygotic (identical) twins are natural clones. Clones contain identical sets of genetic material in the nucleus—the compartment that contains the chromosomes—of every cell in their bodies. Thus, cells from two clones have the same DNA and the same genes in their nuclei.
Would a clone be your child?
So if a cloned baby was created using your DNA, your relationship with that child is determined by the legal system, not by genetics. So if you are the legal parent of the cloned baby, then the baby is your child. If your parents are the legal parents of the cloned baby, then the baby is your sibling.
Are there male clones?
The female monopoly on mammalian reproduction has been challenged. Teruhiko Wakayama and Ryuzo Yanagimachi of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawaii have successfully cloned the first male animal – a mouse, named Fibro.
Are twins and clones the same?
Identical twins have the same DNA as each other, but different from their parents. A clone, however, only has one parent and has exactly the same DNA as that parent.
Do clones have feelings?
So it’s safe to say the same can happen with the brain, meaning under-development, missing nerves, unconnected nerves, resulting in mental or physical disorders. So yes, a clone can have emotions.
Can human clones reproduce?
Consequently, a human clone could reproduce just like anyone else – UNLESS the person whose DNA the clone received had some genetic condition that rendered them unable to create offspring.