1. All navel oranges are clones.

 

 

 

 

2. The term “clone” was coined by biologist JBS Haldane in 1963.

 

 

3. There is no evidence that human cloning has actually occurred.

 

 

4. Under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, the reproductive cloning of               humans is banned. Click here to see laws in other countries.

 

 

 

5. The first dog to be cloned was born in South

    Korea on April 24, 2005, and was named

    Snuppy.

 

 

 

 

6. The first animal ever cloned was a sea urchin. In the 1880s, a German biologist       named Hans Driesch used an embryo cell to clone the urchin.

 

 

7. Dolly the sheep, named for Dolly Parton, was the first mammal to be                         successfully cloned from an adult cell. She lived for six years. Click here to find       out more about Dolly and other cloned animals.

 

 

8. 95% of animal cloning attempts fail.

 

 

9. There is no known technology that can create an instant copy of a living                   organism. Experiments are intergenerational, meaning the clone will be                   younger than the original.

 

 

10. For about $100,000, a lab in South Korea will clone your pet for you. A woman       very recently won a contest to have her beloved pet replicated.