Question: Can you clone human DNA

Stefan Piatek answered on 16 Mar 2013:

You sure can. I guess it’s a question of what you mean by cloning. You can copy just the DNA quite easily by using mechanisms that DNA viruses use to copy themselves!

If you mean can you clone human beings, in theory it would be possible to take the DNA from a person who is already alive and put it into an egg that has been fertilised and had it’s DNA removed. However the really interesting thing is that there are problems with this. Let me know if this explanation makes sense:

Turns out that the DNA, which is like a script for your body has little bits added to it, the script hasn’t changed, but there are notes by the director on it. So the actors (your cells) know that parts of the script (genes) are not going to be played ( not used) and that others are going to be overacted (used). This happens differently in each of your cells, which is what makes the gene for your eye colour turn on in your eye, but not in your skin!

Now if you think that you’re taking DNA that has these notes on and put it into a new egg, it doesn’t have the same notes as your DNA did when it was a new egg, so things don’t always work out right.

Ultimately, there are a lot of ethical problems with cloning humans too