• Question: would my clone grow up or be a reminder of me as a baby

    Asked by hartley to James on 19 Mar 2015.
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      James Pope answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      Hi Hartley,

      A clone is a copy fo living organism with the same DNA and chromosones. We make clones by implanting this DNA and chromosones (teh genetic material) into an embryo, and implant the embryo into a donor womb. The embryoa then grows as a baby does and is born.

      So, you may be 12 years old when you clone is born, but it will be a baby. It will then grow up as your genetics controlled you growing up, but it would always be 12 years younger than you, so when it turns 18, you would be 30.

      Hope that make sense.

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