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How is a clone different from identical twins?

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A clone is produced by actually making an organism by scientific means of extracting a nucleus of the organism you want to clone, inserting it into an oocyte, and inserting that cell into a mother. An identical twin, on the other hand, is naturally born as a child of an organism.

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