Coral Clones and Genetic degradation?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by BlueAbyss

A 'clone' is any genetic copy, by whatever means, of the original... indeed, your frags are clones. So are most of my houseplants... grown from cuttings (or tissue culture). Same deal, exact genetic copy. There is no genetic tampering when you're talking about cloning something... that would be changing the genetics and thereby making any offspring not a clone but a genetically engineered organism.

I suppose it's entirely possible that the genetics could degrade eventually, but I doubt it... there is at least one small forest in the world where the trees are all one organism, exactly the same genetically but grown from offshoots.

OK that makes sense. I wasn't sure what it exactly meant.