Cloning: Phase 2

August, 2001

Cloning: Phase 2To a geneticist, cloning is a beautufully simple process, if not completely understood. Deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule in each cell that ries a being's (human or other) personal genetic inheritance, is combined with an egg cell stripped of its own Dna. When the process works the resulting egg grows into an exact genetic replica of the creature that supplied the DNA.Cloning is that simple--and the source of extraordinary hopes, fears, controversy and, likely, one day, billion...