• Question: Would you be able to make a clone of someone or yourself?

    Asked by anon-193421 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 11 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      I personally wouldn’t be able to make a clone but I do remember learning about the infamous Dolly the sheep cloning in science lessons at school!

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      At the moment – no! Scientifically, it’s possible to make a clone of someone or yourself (Emma mentioned Dolly the sheep as an example), but there are lots of ethical questions that surround this. Should we be able to clone people? Why? Should we clone people that have died? It’s a super difficult area for science to grapple with, and at the moment the ethical questions haven’t been answered so it’s not possible for us to easily clone people or ourselves.

    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      if you could (which we can’t yet) would you want to?

      The other issue is that, although a clone would have exactly the same genetic makeup as you it would have very different experiences as it (What is the pronoun for a clone?) grew up.
      So the clone would not be an exact copy of you more like an identical twin that was a lot younger!

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