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2 scientists conducted a study over 20 years where they cloned generations of mice to see what would happen; the researchers created a total of 58 generations before the project ended
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Innerworld lemmy.world Innerworld@lemmy.world
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Link: https://denovo.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-you-clone-mice
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Innerworld lemmy.world Innerworld@lemmy.world
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higgsboson piefed.social higgsboson@piefed.social
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By generation 57, the cloned mice had acquired over 3400 single-base changes relative to the starting mouse, whereas 62 generations of natural reproduction (in an inbred mouse strain) had accumulated 752.

In other words, cloning caused 3.1 times more single-nucleotide mutations per generation than natural reproduction.
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