I think I've read somewhere that when an animal /person is cloned, the clone enters life at an accelerated age.
Not to say that a forty-year-old person will be born when someone clones themselves, the person born will be a baby. (Obviously)
But Dolly (I think it was Dolly) the cloned sheep showed arthritis at the same time that her parent sheep did. The only difference was that Dolly (Or other cloned animal that I'm confusing with Dolly) was a lamb (Younger version of cloned animal that is confused with Dolly) when it developed arthritis. The same for other gewnetic dispositions that occur with age.
Once again, I only vaugely remember this - it may never have happened and be only a figment of my wildly insane imagination.
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