Saturday, June 22, 2002

natural cloning?

(originally posted at pixeljuice.livejournal.com)

"Then again, alternatives to sex do exist.  Female greenflies can bear live, female offspring, each one containing all the genes of its mother."
- Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene

Exactly how is this not cloning?

Furthermore, are female greenflies who happen to live in the United  States breaking the law? :)

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