Sandra Grade 4 New York A. Sandra, Thank you for your question. I am impressed that you are reading The New York Times in fourth grade. I had trouble understanding it in sixth grade. Clones refer to plants, animals or bacteria that are essentially copies of one another. They have the same genetic makeup and therefore should look almost exactly the same.
Identical twins are, in a sense, clones.
Of course, if you clone an animal like a sheep, the clone starts life as a baby and will thus be much younger than the original sheep. So it would be hard to tell just by looking at the two animals that they are the same. Amy Grade 8 New Jersey A. Amy, Reporters often move from subject to subject and region to region. In some ways, the key to being a reporter is to be able to become an instant expert on whatever subject you are being asked to write about that day. Of course, we're not really experts.