- Cloning isn't just for sheep, y'all. - Let's talk about (like sheep) that.
♪(theme music)♪
- (normal voice) Good Mythical Morning. - If you've spent any time in the
world of science fiction movies, you know all about cloning,
but it's not just science fiction, y'all, it's science fact. It is happening.
So, today, I'm gonna drop some science cloning facts on you and see how it feels,
- Rhett. It's time to play: - ♪(mysterious music)♪
- Is This Fact A Phoney Or A Cloney? - Oh, the old phoney-cloney rhyme.
- A cloney is a true fact about cloning. - I know a lot about a lot of things.
- I think I've demonstrated that. - Okay.
For every one you get wrong, I am going to take a DNA sample
- with which to clone you. - What?
- That's right. - How do I donate?
- I'm gonna pluck a hair from your face. - From where?
- From your face. - Okay.
- So, don't get any wrong, - Thanks for clarifying.
and you wont get plucked. Let's get right into this.
- Get plucked! - Cloney or Phoney?
In 1885, the first animal was cloned. It was a sea urchin because who wouldn't
want two identical spiky sea urchins?! Ur-cheens.
- (high pitched) Sea urchins? - (laughs)
- (normal voice) Well, - Ur-cheens.
this-- I know that this is definitely possible because, really,
all you have to do is cut a sea urchin and you've cloned it.
So it could be 1885. That is perfectly possible,
and therefore probable, and therefore plausible and therefore-- What is it?
- Cloney! - That's right, it is cloney.
- (ding sound) - Hey!
In 1885, scientist Hans Dreisch accidentally cloned sea urchins by
shaking the cells apart. He didn't cut it.
- Ah. He shook it. - He left the cells to develop.
- Shake it off, Hans. - He then amassed an army of
identical urchins and took over the entire coast of Germany,
- Woah! - which he still controls to this day.
- Wow, I mean, go see him. - I made that part up.
- That's probably not true. - That's phony.
Cloney or Phoney? You've heard of Dolly the Sheep.
- Yes. She's a good friend. - In 1996, she became the first mammal clone,
but what you may not know is that she named after Dolly Parton
because she was cloned from a mammary gland cell.
- Oh. Oh! Now, wouldn't that be convenient? - (laughs)
Because Dolly Parton has the big mammary glands.
- (crew laughs) - Thanks for thinking out loud.
I've been to Dollywood. Dolly, you did a great job on that park.
- Phoney or Cloney? - You do a great job with your
personal appearance too. You're up there in the age,
- but you know, nobody cares. - What are you looking at?
- (crew and Rhett laughs) - Lookin' at your strings?
Just looking at my own chest. How does it measure up?
- I'm stalling. - Cloney or Phoney?
I don't think that-- Yes. I do think that it was named
after Dolly. That makes sense to me.
- Oh. - It doesn't make any sense,
- so therefore, it makes total sense. - Really?
Yeah. Cloney. Awwww!
- No, you're right! - (ding sound)
- Hey! Woo! - It's Cloney!
Ian Willmut, one of the scientists who made Dolly stated,
"Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell, and we couldn't think of a more impressive
- pair of glands that Dolly Parton's." - That's right, buddyroll.
Other possible named they considered were Pamela, Elvira, and Meatloaf.
- Ohohoho. - Cloney or Phoney?
- (inaudible) - Successful cloning requires very
particular conditions, including that the procedure take
- place at least 500 feet above sea level. - (makes weird sound) Come on, man.
You think altitude's got anything to do with cloning? Who do you think I am, man?
You think I'm the kind of guy that wears a weird hoodie?
- (Link and crew laugh) - I wasn't gonna comment on it,
- but I wouldn't clone that apparel. - Phoney. Phoney. Not true. Phoney.
- You sure? - Yeah.
- You sure? - Yeah, man. Altitude, man.
- Got nothing to do with it. - Alright, I haven't got you yet.
- (ding sound) - Yeah, that's right!
- That was (inaudible). - You ain't gonna clone me today, sucka'!
But do you know what has to be done 500 feet-sea level?
- Farts. - (crew laughs)
- No. No? No. You can't do that-- - I'm always ready to put a fart out there.
This show. Burbank is six hundred and seven feet
- above sea level. - Oh!
and if the crew drops below five hundred feet,
- they explode. - Mm!
Yeah, that's why they don't go to the west side.
- That's right. Cloney or Phoney? - (laughs silently)
Contrary to popular belief, not all clones are identical.
In fact, the first cat to be cloned looked almost nothing like her clone-mom.
Who's the daddy? Am I right?
- (Rhett and crew laugh) - Who's the daddy?
- (everyone laughs) - What?
- I think it's 'Who's your daddy?' - No, it's--
- Who's the daddy? - Who's the daddy when the child looks
- nothing like you. - I know things can go wrong during the
cloning process, but it's the same DNA,
but maybe during the formation, something could go wrong and maybe,
I don't know. I'm gonnaa say cloney.
- You sure? - (muffled) Yeah.
You don't wanna change your answer? Dang it, you're right!
- (ding sound) - Hah!
- I wanna pluck some hairs, man! - Well, I told you, man!
- Come on! - I'm an expert.
Calico cat clone Cece's coat color and pattern was different because
different-- Certain genes are switched on and off
during the development process. On or off.
- What? - Actually-- Accidentally.
The gene for peeing in your shoes remain the same, however.
Oh, you were explaining why they were different.
- (crew laughs) - But the peeing thing.
- I was thinking it was a new question. - (laughs)
- I was like, "What? I'm confused." - Oh, you thought I was giving you-- No.
Alright, I gotta get some DNA here. You might think,
"Jurassic Park was just a movie! They can't really clone extinct animals!"
but you would be wrong. They already have.
- Already have? - Already have!
I know they were attempting to clone a mammoth,
and that the guy said it would happen by 2016, but it is 2016,
and I feel like it would be a (high pitched) news story if it had
already happened. So I'm going to say phoney!
- It's cloney. - (buzzer sound)
- I finally got you! - (normal voice) What did they do?
In 2009, the then extinct Pyrenean Ibex was brought back to life by cloning.
The mountain goat only lived for ten minutes, but they're doing it!
- Oh, ten minute goat! - They did it!
- The ol' ten minute goat, - (crew laughs)
- which is a great drink down the street. - Yeah, so here we go.
- Here we go. - Woah, woah, woah.
- My hands are kinda shaky so I'm gonna-- - Rest your palm on my--
- I don't wanna poke your eye out. - On my forehead.
I got lots of brow to give the world. Oh! Oh.
- Look at that. - That was relatively pleasant.
- (spits) - What in the world?
- (crew laughs) - You're contaminating the sample, man!
- (glass tapping) - Alright. There we go.
The seal is over there on the ground. Okay. I don't know everything about cloning.
Every lobster you've ever eaten is actually a clone!
Their eggs are asexually-produced duplicates of themselves.
- Cloney or phoney? - That would be a huge surprise to me
if that were true. Just a massive surprise,
and everything I think I know about biology would be undone if that were true.
- I don't care, just give me your answer. - So I'm going to say phoney.
- Alright, I didn't trick you with that one. - (laughs)
- (ding sound) - Let's move on to another.
A Canadian dentist is working on cloning John Lennon.
Oh gosh. Pshhhht.
Canadian dentist. Cloney or phoney?
So many parts of that seems so ridiculous that I'm going to say that it has to be true.
It has to be true. Cloney. What are you trying to come over here for?
- (crew laughs) - Cloney!
- I know. - Is it cloney or phoney?
- Cloney. - (ding sound)
- Hey-hey-hey! - In 2014 a dentist named
Doctor Michael Zuk bought Lennon's tooth at an auction and he plans to
- clone him and raise him as his son. - (laughs) Little Johnny.
The only problem is he'll be Canadian. Who wants an Canadian John Lennon?
Hey, he could probably work it out. He'll find the next
- It's not going to be the same. - Yoko Ono again.
In 2003, doctors learned to not let an animal birth its own clone
because scientists in Edinburgh implanted a clone embryo of Dolly's predecessor,
Carol, into Carol, and it grew five legs and died in utero.
Carol into Carol? That seems like a bad idea.
- Cloney of phoney? - It seems like it would die,
so I'm going to say cloney. This happened.
- Nope! - (buzzer sound)
Phoney! It's especially untrue because scientists
frequently implant clones into the original.
- What?! - This is why I'm adding
giving birth to myself to my bucket list.
- (crew laughs) - I hope I'm not there for that.
- I'ma get-- You got-- - Oh, oh, oh. This is gonna hurt.
- Ooh. Oh. Oow! - (crew laughs)
- It's for science, man. - (Rhett) Oh, thanks for that.
- How many you gonna make? Two? - This is a punishment,
but then later, you get a clone, and that's a reward.
But I won't care about the clone. I'll be dead.
- You don't have-- - I don't want a little baby me.
You don't have to be dead. I'ma work on this immediately.
- Okay. - (crew laughs)
What do identical twins and a certain species of west coast stick insect have
- in common? - Nothing.
- Why they're all clones of course! - Clones?
- (crew laughs) - They're all clones. Are twins clones?
- And are stick bugs clones? - That is a really good question.
I don't think technically that-- I think they have the same exact DNA,
but is it a splitting of an egg? Is that cloning?
I don't know. I'm gonna say phoney.
- It's cloney! - (buzzer sound)
- It's plucking time because-- - So it is a clone.
It's technically a clone. An identical twin is a splitting of a
- fertilized egg. - Gosh, I've really fallen off.
It's just a naturally occurring clone in the same way that lady stick bugs
don't mate, they just replicate. They also wear t-shirt that say,
"Don't mate, replicate," and I'm also gonna get one of those
- t-shirts for my daughter. - What in the world?
- (crew laughs) - What are the men for then?
- They don't exist. - Get an ear hair.
I think I got couple of stra-- Like, a stray one there coming out.
- Yeah, you got a big one right there. - Oh, oh, oh. Oh!
- Ew. - That was it?
- That was the pluck? - Yeah.
- It felt like a stab. - (laughs) Really?
- Alright, there you go. - Okay, I fell off a little bit at the end.
- Maybe I shouldn't be cloned. - Alright, no. I'ma work on it.
You deserve to be cloned. Oh, they don't wanna go in there.
Alright. Don't mate, replicate, but do comment, like, and share this video.
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Click through to Good Mythical More. We're gonna discuss the reality of being
- able to clone your own pet. - Uh oh.
- You can do it, and there is a price. - PSA for thumbtacks.
- Hi. - Are you suffering from
- untackish thumbs? - (laughs silently)
I knew that you were suffering from untackish thumbs.
I could tell by the look you were giving me.
It's because you are pushing your thumb into the pointy end of the tumbtack.
- Turn it around. - Just turn it around and everything's
- gonna be okay. - Just turn it around.
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