A person or an animal that is born by cloning will be absolutely same as the original?

Question

Does an animal or person that is born by cloning have characteristic, thinking exactly same as the such of the original one?

Answer 1

Cloning is such an interesting subject, that it is difficult to answer your question with an answer that will be true for every instance. First, I would like to mention that cloning of humans has never been done, but if you were to compare it to a natural phenomenon, you could compare it to identical twins. These specific twins share the exact same DNA sequence. They are alike genetically, but you will easily find sets of identical twins that are not like eachother in almost every way other than their physical characteristics. Genetics determines the way you look, diseases that you may be more prone to contracting, and things like this, however, genetics does not determine what type of person you are (at least not 100% of who you are). It is through different types of parenting and different environmental and social factors that a person achieves their specific personality, and their "way of thinking". Therefore, a clone will not think exactly the same as the original person. But, you can also alter clones due to the way that they are made, so that they do not specifically resemble the original. This is done often in laboratories, so that specific genes can be altered and the clones of the original will not generate specific attributes that the original animal does. Therefore, clones do not necessarily represent an exact copy of the original. What I would like to point out is that a clone is an entirely new individual, and therefore will be an individual physically and mentally. (But one question for you, if we do clone humans, will they have a soul?)

Answer 2

Physically, yes. One has to remember, though, that many mental and physical traits are "tendencies". If a person has many family members who have had cancer, or whose family has a history of schizophrenia, they can be said to have a genetic predisposition towards cancer or schizophrenia. These things usually require environmental triggers, though. Example: a woman who has had breast cancer, with a family history of breast cancer, is cloned. The clone steers clear of anything that might be considered carcinogenic. This allows the clone to escape cancer.
As far as thinking goes, environment and experience has a lot to do with the way people think. If a person was locked in a dark elevator as a child, and they develop a fear of darkness and enclosed places, it does not automatically mean that their clone would develop the same fear. Some studies done on twins that were separated at birth (pretty much the closest thing we have to clones at the present time), tends to indicate that there may be some general personality traits that might be inherited. These studies aren't conclusive, though, as the separated twins would presumably go to foster homes or adoption, in which the state looks for very specific kind of home to place the children in, so the children would have a very similar developmental environment, which might explain why they act in similar ways.
To answer your question: no. not absolutely the same, but probably with tendencies to have the same general personality type.

Answer 3

If cloning were perfected, the environment still will play a role in the development of the clone. Identical twins are about as close to clones as you can get. Yet each person is still unique even living in the same household.

Answer 4

No...it truly is like asking if a toddler would undergo in recommendations issues that it really is figure experienced. A clone only feels like the animal it became made from...the recommendations is amazingly complicated and can't be copied by skill of cloning, delivery, or some thing recognize to technology at this factor.

Answer 5

Structurally everything will be the same. However,the process of thinking may not necessarily be the same since the experience of the clone and the original in the environment is not always the same.

Answer 6

No.

The process of cloning introduces damage so that errors become genetic problems for the animal. Dolly the Sheep was 20% bigger than her parent & had a breathing problem her parent did not have, for example.

Environment also is a big factor which alters every living thing - genes are not the whole story.

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Answer 7

No they share the same genetic sequence but the environment affects the behavior of the clone, so genetically it will be identical but behaviorally it will be quite different.

Answer 8

yes they would be the same....but.....think of identical twins, they are the same at birth, but time and the environment will make them different......