can a female clone of a male be possible....?

Answer 1

Sure, with chromosome manipulation. You'd have to replace the Y chromosome with an X, then remove the gene that controls parallel parking ability.

Answer 2

i think it is NOT possible. As clonning is carbon copy of the individual. So male will produce a male clone & female-a female clone. Cause cloning is done with the DNA used from cells.

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Answer 3

Move over, Dolly. Researchers have broken another barrier in genetic research by successfully engineering the first clone using cells from a male mammal.
Teruhiko Wakayama and Ryuzo Yanagimachi, who began cloning mice a year ago at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, used somatic (nonreproductive) cells from the tails of mice, showing that male as well as female clones could be produced from a variety of cells.


Researchers say the cloning could give hope to endangered species since fertility and sex are not factors. Previous cloning research has focused on cells related to female reproduction.

"Use of the tail cells indicates that it is possible to clone either sex, and probably from almost any kind of somatic cell, as long as one figures out a way to cause the cell to regress to a primitive state and capitulate gene effects," said Robert Foote, professor of animal physiology at Cornell University.

Other than the nature of the cells, the technique used was similar to the one that produced Dolly the sheep. Like Dolly, previous mice clones produced at the University of Hawaii have been female.

Male mammals have been cloned -- bull clones were developed in Japan -- but they were also derived from female reproductive cells.

Since mice are frequently used as models for testing treatments of human disease, this type of cloning could make it possible to produce certain gene mutations in mice to be used in research for illnesses such as cancer or Alzheimer's disease.

Answer 4

Yes you can replace the chromosomes. But it has to be done at a stage in embryotic development that if manipulated with might retard the end result. Maybe once they successfully clone someone then they can try different gendered clones.

Answer 5

It wouldn't be an identical clone, obviously.
You'd have to remove the Y chromosome, and replace it with either
a fresh X chromosome from another donor,
or
with a copy of the male donor's X chromosome (not recommended, because of potential deleterious recessives).

Answer 6

I don't believe it would be possible. I find it impossible to just construct a gene strand that never existed in the first place. XY - XX. Although, I am no expert on geneology. It may very well be possible, but I just don't see how you make up a strand that was never there to begin with.

Answer 7

if it would be possible than it won't b called a clone. coz clones r completely identical upto their genetic level.