A decade ago, the eminent geneticist Jerome Lejeune spoke about genetic engineering, including cloning. The following is an excerpt from his talk on genetic engineering. Plant geneticists have discussed the cloning of man.
Cloning is a very simple trick.
The difficulty of choosing the parents is that even if you take one marvelous woman and one marvelous man, the children might not receive their good qualities. Cloning overcomes this problem because it produces a genetically perfect replica of the individual. You can genetically predict the results you would have because the child you will form will be as close genetically as an identical twin. The technique used will be to choose an ovum, preferably an ovum that has just been fertilized. With a tiny pipette you suck out the legitimate nucleus, which is inside that egg.