Cloning seems like it has the potential to cure disabilities and diseases, and also make farming easier. With so many potential uses why is it that nothing major has happened since Dolly the sheep?
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There’s lots of cloning going on. You can get commercially cloned pets (cats, dogs, etc.)
I know a guy that clones horses and deer (big bucks). The very interesting thing about horse cloning is that the clones don’t always (or even often) look the same, because their markings (the white parts in their coat) are determined during fetal development.
I remember looking at a corral of about 20 or so horses that were all clones (this was about 9 years ago). There was a group of 4-5, none of which looked the same, he said were all clones of the same original horse, then he explained why they looked differently. I asked him how the horses got along, because they tend to have pecking orders and such like that. I was curious how the same 5 horses would determine their rankings and if there would be issues with them getting along, etc. He said, as far as he could tell, they got along great and no differently than non-cloned horses.
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