The Cellar - August 11, 2008: Booger Clones

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I thought all boogers were clones.

Something I just noticed.

If they're all clones, why does the one in the middle have a white stripe down it's face?

My understanding of cloning is that it simply (!) uses DNA from one animal as if it were both mother and father. I welcome correction if that's not the case.
So there is less variation than between natural siblings, but it can still throw up many many differences.

Interesting. I didn't know that.

This was first noted in the IotD January 24, 2003: Cloned cat not copied, which documented how the first cloned pet did not turn out to be the same cat as its original. I remember researchers saying that even the in-utero experience would lead to different outcomes.

From Neatorama...

Quote:

Now, a lawyer has identified McKinney as a fugitive from a criminal case in Tennessee.

The Tennessee charges stem from McKinney’s arrest in November 2004 after being found in a van with the teenager. According to prosecutors in Carter County, an area in north eastern Tennessee, she instructed the boy to burgle a house and was charged with criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

McKinney had allegedly told the teenager she needed money to help her three-legged horse. A representative of the South Korean biotech company said she had left for the US last week, but does not know where she is.

I should think it would be hard to sneak into the country with 5 puppies.