Coral Clones and Genetic degradation?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

"Cloning" corals (ie. fragging) is a totally different procedure than the sheep cloning the scientists did with Dolly.

Fragging successful corals will mean the spread of good genetic material that is unaltered from the original except due to naturally occuring mutations and such (as someone already stated).

Not something we should have to worry about IMHO.

Coral "cloning" or fragging is more like vegetative cloning, even though corals are animals with symbiotic algae cells inside.

Dolly, on the other hand, was cloned from an adult ewe so her genes were "old" already. That's why Dolly died "young" and had all the symptoms and ailments of an older sheep, since that was the original source of her DNA.

Anthony