In cloning,how do the cloned organisms compare to their parent?

Answer 1

A true clone is an exact genetic copy of the parent.

If not, it's a mutation.

Answer 2

Cloned organisms should be genetically identical to their parents. Their traits controlled by genes should be the same as their parents, but there may be epigenetic effects can affect the smiliarity...

However, for cloned higher organism (like animals), the organism age faster than the parent especially when the parent is already not young when the DNA is taken from it to do the cloning. This is because the DNA started with shorter telomeres which make the cloned organism age faster. Also, the germ cells of the cloned organism have shorter DNA telomeres compared to its parent.

Answer 3

It depends on what you mean by parent (and cloning.)

First, let me say this- genetically, clones are identical to what they are cloned from.

HOWEVER, in plant cloning, especially, one often clones the plant because the cloned plant will be younger than the original plant (plant cloning is a natural process- people and nature both can do it.)

The CLONE lacks the acquired (non-genetic) characteristics of its parent. So, if I had the world's best tasting banana tree, and it was in a fire and lived, and I cloned it (that's how seedless bananas are produced) my new tree would be GENETICALLY IDENTICAL, but lack the ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS (scarring from the fire) of the plant it was cloned from.

Answer 4

When cloning an organism, if everything goes right (i.e, not mutations) then the cloned organism and its parent are genetically identical.

Answer 5

A clone, by definition, is an exact genetic copy of its parent. All of its chromosomes and genes are exactly the same.

Answer 6

Cloned animals tend to age much faster than their naturally-conceived counterparts. Look up Progenesis or Progeria.

It happens extermely rarely in animals who are conceived naturally, but is almost universal in cloned animals.