What if two clones had a baby?

Their children are not identical, although they are more genetically related than the usual first cousins. They are more like siblings, just like our clones' kids would be. These cousins are more like siblings at the DNA level because both clones and identical twins have identical DNA.
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What would happen if you had a baby with your clone?

The two of us would not have a child. If a woman had a clone, the clone would also be a woman. The two of them would not have a child on their own either. There are a small number of creatures where one single animal is both a male and a female.
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Can a clone get pregnant?

Myth: Offspring of clones are clones, and each generation gets weaker and weaker and has more and more problems. No, not at all. A clone produces offspring by sexual reproduction just like any other animal.
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Has a baby ever been cloned?

Undaunted, Clonaid moved its operations to the Bahamas. On Dec. 27, 2002, the group announced that the first cloned baby — named Eve — had been born the day before. By 2004, Clonaid claimed to have successfully brought to life 14 human clones.
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Who is the first cloned human?

On Dec. 27, 2002, Brigitte Boisselier held a press conference in Florida, announcing the birth of the first human clone, called Eve.
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Has any human been cloned?

1 No one has ever cloned a human being, though scientists have cloned animals other than Dolly, including dogs, pigs, cows, horses and cats. Part of the reason is that cloning can introduce profound genetic errors, which can result in early and painful death.
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Can humans be cloned legally?

Under the AHR Act, it is illegal to knowingly create a human clone, regardless of the purpose, including therapeutic and reproductive cloning.
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How was Baby Eve cloned?

The woman donated the DNA for the cloning process, had the resulting embryo implanted and then gestated the baby, Boisselier said. If confirmed, that would make the child an exact genetic duplicate of her mother — the same as an identical twin.
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Why we shouldn't clone humans?

Moreover, most scientists believe that the process of cloning humans will result in even higher failure rates. Not only does the cloning process have a low success rate, the viable clone suffers increased risk of serious genetic malformation, cancer or shortened lifespan (Savulescu, 1999).
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How long do clones live in real life?

The closest answer is that, like natural-born humans, a clone's lifespan varies, although they probably weren't designed to live more than 50 human years (that would make a clone 100 years old).
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Has a human ever had a baby with an animal?

At this point, humans seem to have been separate from other animals for far too long to interbreed. We diverged from our closest extant relative, the chimpanzee, as many as 7 million years ago. (For comparison, our apparent tryst with the Neanderthals occurred less than 700,000 years after we split off from them.)
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Do any clones have kids?

Within Star Wars Legends, the non-canon stories of the pre-Disney era, there exists a couple of examples of clones having children. One is Darman Skirata, aka RC-1136, a clone commando who falls in love with a Jedi, Etain Tur-Mukan, who bears him a son.
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Would a human clone be sterile?

no one is infertile with cloning, all right. It has nothing to do with couple, because you don't have to be a couple to do this. It's just a technique to make a genetic duplicate.
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Would a clone be your child or sibling?

“Parent” conveys the notion of a generation between the clone and the source. On the other hand, in terms of the number of genes in common, a clone might better be thought of as a sibling. Ordinarily a parent gives a copy of half its genes to the child, the other parent supplying the other half.
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Can a clone be a different gender?

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.
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Can body parts be cloned?

Scientists could potentially clone organs with SCNT by cloning embryos, extracting the stem cells from the blastocyst, and stimulating the stem cells to differentiate into the desired organ.
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Do clones have the same memories?

One reason they don't have exactly the same personality is because cloning isn't like you see in the movies -- a clone is not the same age as the original. It doesn't have the same memories or experiences. It only shares the same DNA.
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Which states allow human cloning?

There are 10 States (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, and Rhode Island) with "clone and kill" laws.
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How much does a human clone cost?

Some scientists believe clones would face health problems ranging from subtle but potentially lethal flaws to outright deformity. But let's ignore all that--for the moment--and cut to the bottom line: How much would it cost to clone a person? According to our estimates: about $1.7 million.
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Does the US ban human cloning?

There is no federal law prohibiting human cloning; as of today, federal laws and regulations only address funding and other issues indirectly connected to cloning. At the state level, however, there are laws directly prohibiting or explicitly permitting different forms of cloning.
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Is Dolly the sheep still alive?

On 14 February 2003, Dolly was euthanised because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis. A Finn Dorset such as Dolly has a life expectancy of around 11 to 12 years, but Dolly lived 6.5 years.
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Do clones have the same fingerprints?

Even though a clone is genetically identical to its host, a clone would not have the same fingerprints as its host because fingerprints are not genetically determined, rather they are formed in the womb as result of external processes.
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How many cloned animals do we have in the US today?

They are rare and expensive, and the US agriculture department estimates that most of about 600 cloned animals in the United States are used for breeding. Their offspring, however, produced through ordinary sexual reproduction, are likely to be used for meat and milk.
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