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.... but where would you insert?

I'll figure it out. I always have a knife if I can't.

Where would the eggs be, that only women have?

Surgery? I guess. I mean, I might not have children or could find an actual female and just use my clone for... you know what

But the question is.... how would you clone yourself?

There was a cloned sheep called Dolly. I could just follow that procedure, maybe? I didn't really look into it too much.

Look into it. Stare into the pits of its soul.

I think they just artificially combined germ cells after removing the nucleus of the egg cell, so the offspring only had genes from the sperm cell, and therefore was a clone.

Okay, but what about the DNA from parents?

What do you mean?

The DNA in the nucleus? Did they keep that and then remove the nucleus?

They removed the nucleus of the egg cell, DNA and all. Otherwise, the offspring would still be a mix between the parents instead of a clone

Oh. So I take it that they kept the mitochondria, the lysomes, and golgi apparatus?

I don't think germ cells have those in the first place though...

.... no mitochondria? How did they create energy then?

They have a mitochondria, but not the other things

Then how did the mitochondria function without a nucleus?

The sperm kept its nucleus, the egg didn't, the sperm is the only one that needs to move

Oh! I thought you were talking about the germ cells, though?

Sperm and egg are both germ cells. Should I have called them sex cells?