Cloning

It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a super long time! In this episode we learn about cloning found in nature, labs, and...this very podcast??
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[Truth or Fail]
Crayfish that’s been cloning itself might help us study prion diseases
nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish…
eurekalert.org/news-releases/904708
Scientists envision a new insect repellant while cloning hemlock trees
eurekalert.org/news-releases/801445
Athlete’s foot fungus rejects sex for cloning
today.duke.edu/2018/02/toenail-fungus-gives-se…
academic.oup.com/genetics/article/208/4/1657/6…
gizmodo.com/the-fungi-that-cause-athletes-foot…
[Trivia Question]
First cloned cat, which was named Copy Cat
vetmed.tamu.edu/news/press-releases/texas-am-s…
npr.org/2020/03/08/813384347/remembering-cc-th…
[Fact Off]
Electric ant queens and males sexually reproduce but actually like two different clonal species
A 34-member “twin study” with Amazon molly fish clones
eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009151
nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43069-6
phys.org/news/2021-02-defeating-enemy-evolutio…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919929
nasa.gov/humans-in-space/twins-study/about
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cross-species cloning and back-breeding as de-extinction strategies
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223960
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157387
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521203
lsspjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186…
nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/specie…
fws.gov/press-release/2021-02/genetic-research…
[Butt One More Thing]
Portuguese man o’ war is a colony of zooid clones, including gastrozooids for digesting (and maybe pooping)
nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51842-1
oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/portuguese-man-o-w…

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