haxxiy on 21 February 2009
| bdbdbd said: @Onyx: As cloning is a word used to describe processes used to duplicate something. When you duplicate aged cells, the duplicated cell is an aged cell to begin with (how else can you clone something). This isn't limited only to cloning, also the age of a mother (giving birth) effects the daugters ability to reproduce, since the reproductionary cells are "cloned" from mother to daughter. And as we live, old cells die in any case and new ones grow, but the new cells that replace the old ones, are already "old" (if not, everyone would be young forever). In order to make a "new" clone, the cells would need to be altered as "new" cells, instead of growing a bunch of old cells (as it currently works). If we think at the theoretical example of cloning a human (growing a human out of cloned cells, as how the process would work), the infant would grow normally, with the difference that the cells would deteriate fast and at a relatively young age, not that the clone would be born as 20 years or 50 years old. |
Failed simplification of ageing mechanisms. At first I thought you was talking about the telomere theory, but after reading the entire post... you've single-handed turned asexual reproduction to be theoretically impossible (as all living organisms have the capacity of DNA repair and antioxidant metabolism). Tsk tsk.
