From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 12:39:50 MST
> > Ah, but we know how difficult it is to produce clones. What is the
> > success rate: 1 in 50? 1 in 100?
>
> The success rate is quite different with multicellular plants. For example,
> one of the most robust plants in my country garden is a Fortune's Double
> Yellow rose <http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/teas/fortunes.html >. Each of the
> thousands of Fortune's Double Yellow now in existence is a clone descended
> from a plant taken from China to England in 1845, at which time it was
> thought to be already quite an old variety.
I wonder if using the example of plants would be a good way to
argue the benefits of cloning. Many, many, food crops are cloned.
Every navel orange in the world is a clone of a single plant, for
example. I'm sure the luddite faction would just trot out "but
people aren't plants", but I think that's pretty easy to counter.
I'm just not sure if the PR value of plant examples is positive
or negative on balance, but I think it's probably positive.
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