When someone is cloned what happens?

Question

When someone is cloned what happens?

Answer 1

Well the government and the church tells us that no human beings have been cloned ... sure, right!  If that is true and no human beings have been cloned, then we don't have a clue what the true nature of a cloned human would be.  Human twin studies and something called quantum consciousness, based upon the physics of quantum mechanics, tells us that a true human clone would likely be far more than just a delayed twin.  In all likelihood, what we'll find is that as the cloned person matures, they and their genomic donor will become one and the same person. One consciousness sharing two different identical body's, one delayed.  It is very likely that human cloning will prove to be one very effective means for extending the useful human life span for many, many years.  Human cloning will open new doors to space exploration and just about everything else in our nature. This is exactly why the government and the religious community push so hard to have this reproductive science suppressed, ban.  It's a political control thing.

See: Human Cloning Commentary

http://www.reproductivecloning.net/open/...

Biosystems as conscious holograms

http://www.emergentmind.org/PDF_files.ht...

O.A.K. Embryonic Holography

http://www.geocities.com/nwbotanicals1/o...

Quantum Consciousness

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/quantum.ht...

ANIMAL CLONING: The Science of Nuclear Transfer

by Joseph Panno, Ph.D.

ISBN: 0-8160-6882-8

CLONING: of Frogs, Mice, and Other Animals

by Robert Gilmore McKinnell

ISBN: 0-8166-1360-5

CLONING: The Road To Dolly, And The Path Ahead

by Gina Kolata

ISBN: 0-688-15692-4

Answer 2

To date, no humans have been cloned, but the process would be similar to that used to clone animals.  Say that I wanted to clone myself:

It would start with an unfertilized egg, donated by a woman in the normal egg-donor fashion.  It would be placed in a petri dish, and the nucleus would be removed using an ultra-fine-tip glass needle that can pierce the cell and pull out the nucleus.

Then, I would donate some cells to the process.  The cells themselves wouldn't be important, but they would have to contain a nucleus with a full complement of functioning DNA (which rules out blood, skin, and sperm).  The nucleus would be removed from one of my cells and inserted into the nucleus-free egg from the previous step.  The new cell would then get a zap of electricity (or sometimes a chemical treatment) to trick it into thinking that it had been fertilized naturally.  After this point, it would begin to divide and develop, and it would be considered an embryo.

The last step is to implant the embryo (my clone) into a surrogate mother.  The surrogate would need hormone therapy before hand and during the early stages of the pregnancy to "trick" her body into thinking that it was pregnant, since the early stages of embryo development (and the important chemical signals that the embryo puts out) will have take place in a petri dish, rather than the uterus.  This part of the procedure is identical to the one used in In Vitro Fertilization (test-tube babies).

The clone would be carried to term (about 9 months) in the normal fashion, and it would be born just like any other baby.  It would probably look like I did when I was born, and could possibly share my temperament, but not necessarily.  It wouldn't have any of my memories (since memories aren't encoded in DNA).  In effect, it would be my twin, albeit one born 27 years after me.

My clone could share my personality, but it wouldn't be guaranteed.  Development of the brain is a very complex process, and it depends on genetics as well as environment.  Twins have a greater chance of being identical, since they are in the same womb at the same time.  A clone, on the other hand, would be grown in a different womb (or the same womb but at a different time).  Tiny changes such as the mother's nutrition, chemicals in the environment, and even ambient noise could influence the clone's development.  

What's more, the clone would be a normal individual and would develop along its own path.  For example, I knew two pairs of twins when I was a kid - one pair was almost identical, personality-wise, but the other pair was very different (one was athletic, the other bookish).  A pair of twins isn't considered one person, even though the have identical DNA, and in the same fashion, a person and their clone would be separate, capable of independently developing personality just like any other normal human.

*Edit*

Not to post-bash, but there is no real scientific evidence for quantum consciousness.  It's all pseudoscience, and uses an unknown (the fuzziness of quantum theory) to explain another unknown (the development of personality).  There is absolutely no evidence-based mechanism by which a clone would develop in any way other than a normal, independent human.

Answer 3

Well, not sure what you're asking exactly.  For example, if a dog is cloned, the dog looks exactly the same but the personality is completely different.  But I'm not sure if you're asking about the actual process or what happens afterwards...