1.   Actually, scientists say that cloned animals will not be exact replicas of their progenitors.

2.   But some consumers are apprehensive about the idea of eating cloned animals.

3.   But many more attempts have resulted in spontaneous abortions, heart and lung defects, or other problems that kill cloned animals in their first few days.

4.   But some Japanese still are alarmed over the ethical issue of raising cloned animals, even if they are domesticated animals bred for slaughter.

5.   Cloned animals are not carbon copies of the original.

6.   Extreme obesity, for example, has developed in many cloned animals.

7.   Experts say cloned animals can be used to produce useful medicines more quickly.

8.   Further study of cloned animals reveals there may be problems with premature aging, as well as vulnerability to illnesses not detected at birth.

9.   If the gaur is born, it would represent the first cloning of an endangered species and the first cloned animal to use another species as a surrogate mother.