Comment 2V51 Re: Always wondered

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Scientists Determined to Clone Woolly Mammoths

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Always wondered (Score: 1)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-11-20 14:48 (#2V4P)

If they clone one, and then clone another bunch from that one, and so on, would that lead to the same kind of ill effects as inbreeding?

Re: Always wondered (Score: 1)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-20 17:53 (#2V4R)

Yes, of course. But does it matter? You will never have huge mammoth herds. At best a few zoos get one. If the offspring shows defects, it just isn't used for breeding.

Population bottlenecks happen and happened naturally:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
Species still survived. Some without human intervention.

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