Can a mouse be cloned indefinitely? Decades-long experiment has answers

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1. Thank you, as for this remark...

“Once the mutation is in the lineage, it’s there forever,” says Lynch. “There’s no way back.”

It's called "evolution."

If one looks at certain features in certain proteomes - I've done this - one can see huge areas that are conserved.

There are a number of organisms that more or less breed asexually, more or less as clones, if I recall correctly, the banana being one.

It's the reason that black sigatoka so easily ravishes plantations, genetic homogeneity.

I believe the issue also is involved with some species of potato. FAFO has spent time in the Andes trying to preserve some strains of potato that are genetically diverse beyond the commercial variety.