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Pig clones found not identical
« on: 2003-01-09 19:23:34 »

This is from a Salon article. Pig clones were found to be not identical.

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Fun with pig clones

Every porker is different, even if it shares the same genes with a litter of siblings. So forget about ordering a copy of your favorite faithful companion.

By Katharine Mieszkowski

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/01/09/pig_clone

Jan. 9, 2003 | In the early weeks of 2003, apparitions of Raelian-cloned babies have haunted headlines.

But the Raelian cult, whose members believe that the human race is descended from aliens, has failed to offer any proof that it has in fact bred the first human clone.

Until the cult comes up with some proof, nine red pigs in Texas have more to teach us about cloning than all the Raelian press conferences combined.

In an article forthcoming in the scientific journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Greg Archer, a graduate student in the animal science department at Texas A&M University, and Ted Friend, a professor there, detail the results of their behavioral study on the cloned pigs, born in two different litters.

Although all the pigs were cloned from the same fetal pig's cells, studies found that the pigs have distinct personalities, much like any other litter. The finding goes against the sci-fi conceit that cloned droids would not only look alike, but behave like carbon copies of each other.

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Re:Pig clones found not identical
« Reply #2 on: 2003-01-11 16:17:44 »

[Quote from Salon.com]
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Although all the pigs were cloned from the same fetal pig's cells, studies found that the pigs have distinct personalities, much like any other litter. The finding goes against the sci-fi conceit that cloned droids would not only look alike, but behave like carbon copies of each other.
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[Wolfger]
I don't know of any *science* fiction people who thought this way.
They're an intelligent crowd. That bogus way of thinking is a *Hollywood* conceit, and only the mindless masses ever believed it.

Leave it to Salon.com to point out things we already knew...

[rhinoceros]
To tell the truth, I didn't really know whether or not cloned mammals would be actually behaviorally identical, so I read about this controlled experiment hoping that I would learn something without having to make any assumptions about my intelligence.

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