Pet Scoop -- Successful Pit Bull Commercial Cloning

One pit bull times 5 -- Woman paid $50,000 to Korean lab to turn skin cells from her pet pit bull into embryos carried by two surrogates. Read the (kinda wierd) story.

One question on many pet lover's minds: Will Cloned Dogs Have Identical Personalities? As the author says:

A clone is an organism that is genetically identical to another organism. Clones are very common.

If you have ever taken a cutting from a plant, placed it in water until roots sprouted, and then potted the newly independent vegetation, you have cloned a plant. If you have eaten a banana, you have consumed part of a cloned organism.

As well, identical twins are by definition clones of each other. This leads me to the answer to your question.

And there is always the local shelter.

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