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Article: Are you worth cloning?(Management Matters)
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- Wood & Wood Products
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- October 1, 2003
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There has been a lot of discussion on and off in the last few years regarding the issue of cloning. The controversy came to a boil in July 1996, when a team of Scottish scientists produced the first live birth of a healthy sheep cloned from an adult sheep. As I write this column, a horse has just been cloned in Italy.
A clone is "one that closely resembles another, as in appearance or function." It is logical then that the only reason one would want to clone something is to duplicate traits or characteristics. The question that comes to mind then is: "Am I worth cloning?"
Indeed, as a company employee are you worth cloning? To put it another way, would ...