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Post by Vene on Dec 16, 2009 22:06:00 GMT -5
Look at this motherfucking cloned kitten and her mother. Look at her!
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Post by MaybeNever on Dec 16, 2009 22:14:29 GMT -5
The kitten looks kind of messed up. But maybe those are just weird pictures.
Anyway, coloration in female cats I think is caused by X-chromosome inactivation in pigment-producing cells, which is determined probabilistically. I could be wrong there. If not, a cloned male cat might be more visually identical to its parent.
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Post by lighthorseman on Dec 17, 2009 0:34:58 GMT -5
That cloned kitten is evil I tells ya! EVILLLL!
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Post by Chi Shiro on Dec 17, 2009 0:51:52 GMT -5
All hail the new anti christ: the cloned kitten!
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Post by Freydis The Valkyrie on Dec 17, 2009 1:55:21 GMT -5
KITTY!
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Post by Vene on Dec 17, 2009 2:13:52 GMT -5
The kitten looks kind of messed up. But maybe those are just weird pictures. Anyway, coloration in female cats I think is caused by X-chromosome inactivation in pigment-producing cells, which is determined probabilistically. I could be wrong there. If not, a cloned male cat might be more visually identical to its parent. What you say about pigments is true, but I will also direct you to eye color. Even if I'm not sure exactly how that is determined and if sex is relevant.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Dec 17, 2009 7:54:42 GMT -5
All hail the new anti christ: the cloned kitten! It's all part of Basement Cat's insidious plot, I tell ya!
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Post by Sigmaleph on Dec 17, 2009 15:13:59 GMT -5
The soul splits as well, what is the problem here? So... why doesn't the soul split when you clone someone? Biologically, it is precisely the same process. Because God is a dick works in mysterious ways. I thought we had established that part.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Dec 17, 2009 15:19:34 GMT -5
I'd love a clone of myself. An exact clone, mind you, none of this waiting for 20 years for him to be the age at which I was when he was created. Atom-for-atom.
See, then I could talk to myself and not sound insane.
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Post by Old Viking on Dec 17, 2009 16:30:15 GMT -5
@ravynoushunter: talk to yourself anyway. I find that a lot fewer people intrude into my personal space.
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Post by canadian mojo on Dec 17, 2009 20:39:34 GMT -5
Look at this motherfucking cloned kitten and her mother. Look at her! If you think this is bad, gender of (some) turtles is determined by incubation temperature. Theoretically a perfect clone could be the opposite sex to the original. ...then they could mate, and make more copies of the original.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 17, 2009 21:27:38 GMT -5
...then they could mate, and make more copies of the original. Nope. Only half of a sexually reproducing organism's chromosomes get put into offspring, and since the allele on one chromosome may be different than the allele on the other, the child may (and statistically speaking will) end up with a different combination of alleles than the parent had, even if both parents were identical genetically.
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Post by Vene on Dec 17, 2009 22:21:35 GMT -5
...then they could mate, and make more copies of the original. Nope. Only half of a sexually reproducing organism's chromosomes get put into offspring, and since the allele on one chromosome may be different than the allele on the other, the child may (and statistically speaking will) end up with a different combination of alleles than the parent had, even if both parents were identical genetically. And this just makes me want to clone one that is homozygous for every gene. Too bad I still can't get rid of that whole mutation business.
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Post by meshakhad on Dec 18, 2009 17:00:13 GMT -5
Oh my G-d... That's it! The Antichrist is JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF! He's been working for Satan the WHOLE TIME! Ooh, good theory. It doesn't go along with the whole "house divided itself can not stand" thing, but it makes as much sense as most fundie rambling. Where does "A house divided against itself" enter into it? The idea is that Christianity itself is a Satanic plot. As Islam also speaks highly of Jesus, it must also be a Satanic plot. Clearly, Judaism is the only correct one.
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