When dolly the sheep was cloned does it have the same dna of the age of the sheep?

Question

so if you were to clone an animal it would be born at that age it was cloned at.

Answer 1

DNA does not determine the age of an organism. Only it's genetic make up and how that is expressed. The age of Dolly the Sheep, as with any other animal, is determined by the amount of time the animal has been alive.

Answer 2

yep is born with the same RNA and DNA and age

Answer 3

This is unclear.

Dolly didn't *seem* to age faster than normal - and she died of a common lung complaint (a form of lung cancer called Jaagsiekte), which domesticated sheep often suffer from. The breed of sheep Dolly was - Finn Dorset - normally live to 12 to 15 years old, and Dolly died age 6.

The intensive necropsy conducted after her death also did not reveal any signs of premature ageing. But it is still possible that prematurely-short telomeres were a contributing factor to her contracting the cancer.

Telomeres are regions of non-coding ("junk") DNA at the ends of chromosomes. Normally, due to a side-effect of the process of DNA replication, these get shortened every cell division. Eventually, the telomeres are "used up", and the DNA shortening starts to eat into actual genes. This causes the cell to become less able to perform certain tasks, and can also cause cancer. The Jaagsiekte lung cancer, however, is caused by a virus (retrovirus JSRV).

In germ-line cells, such as those that produce eggs and sperm, there is an enzyme called telomerase, which repairs the shortened telomeres. This enzyme is not active in somatic (non-germ) cells.

It seems that the egg cell that the nucleus was transplanted into had active telomerase (or a related but unknown mechanism) which might have repaired the shortened telomeres.

Answer 4

No, a clone will always be borne as a new born. However, DNA changes over time. Small mutations accumulate in our DNA as we grow older, and this is one of the reasons cancer is much more common in old people than in kids. So if you used DNA from and adult animal cell it is believed the animal will age faster, since the DNA is already aged at the starting point. But the cloned animal will start as a baby, and develop in the same pace as all other non-cloned animals.  

Answer 5

NO. it would be develop like dolly, start as a lamb and then grow older. your DNA does not change as you age, in other words, the clone does not represent dolly the sheep in her mature developed form but is rather like an identical offspring. normal offspring would consist of a mix of their fathers and mothers dna but scientists have created dolly's clone by recreating the exact same genetic information (GTAC) as dolly herself. another way of putting it is the clone is like an identical twin born many years after the original sheep.

Answer 6

yeah

Answer 7

When messing up with Dolly.

Ever wonder why Dolly could not survive in time?

Ever wonder all living things were created as positive and negative?

What went wrong with Dolly?

Was created as negative without the positive.

Leviticus 19.19

Look in the real world.

In messing up human lives of own children too.

How they were being "Reincarnated" with the negative without the positive?

Living in misery like cave-men from the twilight zone.

Without being aware of the mess out there.

While they were all "Dying inside" without the positive like Dolly too.

The misery expose by the mtsery of us-911

Luke 8.5-8,10-17

What do you think?

Answer 8

As far as i know...the dna is identical...The age is questionable...in theory a baby clone is as young as any other baby animal..but some say that clones may age or die quicker if they are created from an already adult cell...That's why they are now taking samples of cells from new born 'normal' babies