All it takes is one strand of hair. On average humans shed 50 to 100 hairs a day. Each hair carries with it genetic material starting back to when the hair initially grew, till the time it popped of your head. So it actually contains a timespan of your degrading DNA.
Fun fact, younger hair contains younger DNA. Perhaps put some of your hair in storage.
Hair alone does not contain the cells needed to clone anything. You've got to have the "growth bulb" at the end of the hair to get actual complete cells. Hair and fingernails are essentially waste products. You need actual complete cells, usually taken from swabbing the inside of the cheek. But you can easily get DNA from any eating/drinking utensil that the person used.
And unless these evil geniuses have a way to force-grow a human being to adulthood in just a few years, they're not talking about "clones." If they fake an assassination of Trump, it will be with a surgically altered double - not an actual clone.
People tend to use "clone" and "double" interchangeably but they are not the same thing.
All it takes is one strand of hair. On average humans shed 50 to 100 hairs a day. Each hair carries with it genetic material starting back to when the hair initially grew, till the time it popped of your head. So it actually contains a timespan of your degrading DNA.
Fun fact, younger hair contains younger DNA. Perhaps put some of your hair in storage.
Hair alone does not contain the cells needed to clone anything. You've got to have the "growth bulb" at the end of the hair to get actual complete cells. Hair and fingernails are essentially waste products. You need actual complete cells, usually taken from swabbing the inside of the cheek. But you can easily get DNA from any eating/drinking utensil that the person used.
And unless these evil geniuses have a way to force-grow a human being to adulthood in just a few years, they're not talking about "clones." If they fake an assassination of Trump, it will be with a surgically altered double - not an actual clone.
People tend to use "clone" and "double" interchangeably but they are not the same thing.
Good luck getting hair from Trump. Pretty sure it is super-glued in that hair pattern.