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After several generations of cloning, '''replicative fading''' becomes quite serious, and results in numerous errors in the chromosomes, eventually yielding a nonviable clone. | After several generations of cloning, '''replicative fading''' becomes quite serious, and results in numerous errors in the chromosomes, eventually yielding a nonviable clone. | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:44, 3 April 2023
Replicative fading is the degeneration of viable DNA from the practice of reiterative cloning - the loss of genetic information occurring when an organism is repeatedly cloned.
After several generations of cloning, replicative fading becomes quite serious, and results in numerous errors in the chromosomes, eventually yielding a nonviable clone.
Due to mutations in the DNA sequence, each successive clone has more deleterious conditions and genetic traits, a result of "genetic drift."
Eventually, this "fading" results in the complete inability for new viable clones to be created from the one before.
The only solution to replicative fading that has been conclusively identified is to introduce DNA from non-cloned individuals.
The Mariposa colony was a prime example of this disease.
