Well, sort of.
I could not resist:
These are the kittens of Copy Cat, the cat that was cloned back in 2001/2 at Texas A&M. They’re lovely. They were produced the old-fashioned way with a father who was also produced the old-fashioned way. Here’s an article about it.
Do you remember CC? To the right is one of the pictures that was going around when she was first introduced to the world, and to the left is one of her a little over a year after she was born, with Rainbow, the cat of which she is a genetic copy. No, they don’t look exactly alike. Nor do they behave alike, in fact. Their personalities are very different. Evidently their bodies are using the same DNA in different ways. Here’s an article about that. [Update: This is a good opportunity to point out that there’s indeed a lot more to biology and genetics than just DNA… How does one get from the DNA to a complicated final organism? What are the mechnisms involved? That’s a hugely important area called Development. Yvette in the comments brings up an aspect of this when remarking upon the origins of calico patterning in (mostly female, rarely male – because of a battle between two X-chromosomes) cat coats.]
-cvj
Hi ,
What is the name of this brand of cats
Thanks
Wow, Cc does not look like Rainbow at all!!!
Cc’s kittens look so much like Cc! how cute!
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute
this image wil for u
as long as the cat is alright i’ll be fine about clone
“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”
–Norbert Wiener, U.S. mathematician, 1945
Yvette, maybe the same thing that happens with Labradors?
What I find interesting is the fact that they chose to clone a calico cat in the first place, since calico cats are due a Barr body where there is an inactive X chromosome in a female cell. As this has to do with the development and not the genes of the cat, you’re definetely not going to have a cloned kitty that looks similar.
So the real question is this: does the same thing happen to fur color when you clone a non-calico cat?
I guess the cloning of cats is just as quantum as the behavior of subatomic particles. On second thought, the cloning of cats perhaps might be more quantum than the behavior of subatomic particle.
Next up a cloning parthenogenic replicating hybrid transhuman???