Science in Sci-fi

Snappy the Dog

This was a clone of a 3 year old Afghan hound, delivered by a labrador retriever. Out of 123 surrogate mothers were sed, only 3 pregnancies were resulted - one pup miscarriages, one died from pneumonia 3 weeks after its birth, and the sole survivor snappy survived properly.

to create him, a cell behind the afghan dog's ear was taken.

Dolly the sheep

Cloned sheep - split embryo. you know what this is you did it in science nub.

Cloning examples in movies

The clonus Horror (1979) isa movie about a secret society cloning themselves as replacement organs for themselves. one of the clones escapes and finds help, but subsequently goes back and is killed along with other people. aside the really weak plot and poor character development - it highlights ethical issues with cloning of this caliber, as it highlights what society could become like when people unlock the full secrets of cloning,