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From: Elizabeth Harris <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Y-DNA and Cloning
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:27:48 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <42075AEA-1845-46CB-A12D-E19277447270@utoronto.ca>


>cloning = generating twins
>
>not only would the Ys be the same, but the rest of the genome as
>well.


However, if the clone is produced by transplanting the nucleus of the
donor cell into a recipient egg (the mechanism by which Dolly the
sheep was cloned), the mitochondrial DNA of the resulting child would
be that carried by the egg, not by the person being cloned.


--
Elizabeth Harris


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