Would a genetic clone have the same fingerprints as the original?
There is no reason to believe that a clone would have the same fingerprints as the original human. A human can burn off their current fingerprints and they will come back different than their original fingerprints. It’s not determined strictly by your genetics, it is influenced by the random growth of the body.
First, no two people have identical fingerprints, not even identical twins. Any individual’s body is the result of its genes AND its environment AND a good deal of random chance. Many small details of human development, including fingerprints and pore patterns, are heavily influenced by random factors in the prenatal environment, including (among other things) the position of the fetus in the womb at any particular moment during development. Second, a clone is not a perfect copy of its “original,” for all the same reasons “identical” twins are not truly identical and more. For example, twins must necessarily occupy different positions in the womb, but at least their mother’s activities, movements, moods, diet, and medications are the same for both of them. These things would obviously NOT be the same for two “twins” carried in different wombs at different times. Third, even at the genetic level, a clone is normally less similar to its genetic “parent” than identical twins are to each o
Definitely not. As others have mentioned, human cell growth is determined by a massive amount of exogenous and endogenous factors (i.e. variables that come from the outside world and inside your body). In the same way that no two people are totally identical, genetic clones would be different as well. We don’t have to clone humans to prove this, as this occurs naturally. So called identical twins are in essence genetic clones and they do have differences in appearance. This is due to nutrition, exposure to light, temperature, moisture, disease, mutagens and many many more. Hormone levels within the body would vary due to human randomness and was as being affected by the aforementioned outside factors.
What are they teaching you people in school these days? Fact 1: no 2 people have the same fingerprints, noteven identical twins. Fact 2: a true clone (as opposed to a “partial clone) is genitically the same thing as an identical twin, so, No, it wouldn’t have the same fingerprints as the original. *a partial clone is one like the cloned sheep “Dolly”: it involves the transplation of the nucleus of the cloned organism into a fertilized ovum from another. But as the cytoplasm also contains genetic material (only belonging to the mother), the resulting clone has different mitochondrial DNA than the original (unless the ovum was provided by a woman closely related to the original through the female line).
