Just One Not a Few No Family Too

"	We are your biological imperative at present.	"

The female clones

The male clones

A human clone is the biologically and genetically identical being created through copying Deoxyribonucleic acid fragments, cells, or organisms.

Contents

• 1 Orphan Black
• ii Known Clones
  • 2.one Project Leda
  • 2.2 Project Brush
• 3 Creators
• 4 Research
• 5 Defects
• vi Crusaders
• 7 Mythology
• 8 Gallery
• 9 Behind the Scenes
• 10 References

Orphan Black

Clones are the central subject matter of the showOrphan Black. In the series, they seem to be chosen orphans during promotional statements or synopses. Also, the title of the series "Orphan Blackness" has a significant that, according to the creators, is a inkling in the unfolding mystery that may be connected to the clones and will exist revealed at 1 indicate later in the series.^{[1] [two]}

According to clues in the episode Entangled Bank & Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner, Orphan Black refers to orphans "in the blackness," hidden during the restrictive authorities of former British Prime number Minister Margaret Thatcher. In Sarah Manning's case, she was smuggled through the pipeline to avoid being subjected to medical experiments.

Also, the episode titles of the show convey sure observational terms that seem to imply that the clones' actions and differences considering of "nurture," the concept that they will plow up differently because of their different environments, are being observed.

Known Clones

Projection Leda

"	Just ane, I'thousand a few, no family, too. Who am I? A clone.[iii]	"
	— Clone Club's counter-sign

Clone Club is a term used by Cosima and has since also been used in the existent world to refer to the group of clones. The supposed "start dominion" of the club is that outsiders, particularly non-clones, cannot know virtually the clones' existence. However, since Sarah joined the clone club, several people are in the know.

Although clones are supposed to be biologically identical, the clones in the bear witness have differences in some portions of their genome. These portions have certain encoded, encrypted messages which interpret into the clones' tag numbers, used to tell them apart, and the patent for their creation.

Apparently, the clones' mothers were either desperate for children and opted to undergo in-vitro fertilization, like Alison, Cosima, and Beth's parents, or were peradventure women who were approached by scientists posing as couples who wanted children of their own simply needed a surrogate, like Sarah and Helena'south credible nascency female parent, Amelia.

Equally of Flavor 5, the identity of 274 clones from Project Leda have been confirmed, although the fragmented list featured in the season finale did non appear to include deceased clones, suggesting that the final number may be higher. Those featured in the Tv series or comics are shown below (in order of appearance):

Justyna Buzek † §

Fey † §

Femke † §

Jade † §

Effie † §

Unnamed Polish Clone †

Camila Torres

A full list of named LEDA Clones is available here.

* Charlotte was created 20 years afterward the other clones from Project Leda, due to repeated attempts at making more than clones from the same batch. According to Marion Bowles, Charlotte is the sole survivor of 400 attempts to recreate a clone from this batch.

† Deceased.

§ Introduced in Orphan Black: Helsinki comic miniseries.

Project Castor

Creators

"	This organism and derivative genetic material is restricted intellectual holding.	"
	— The patent in the clones' genome

The female person clones are the fruits of a series of illegal human cloning experiments known as Projection LEDA, a scientific study from around 1977. Named after the mythical Leda, queen of Sparta and mother (with Zeus) of Helen of Troy, Castor and Pollux, the project was initially a military operation, circa 1977, before the Dyad Constitute took over. The lead scientists, husband and wife team Professors Susan and Ethan Duncan were a function of 1 of an unknown number of implantation teams believed to exist the clones' creators. Information technology was deemed irresponsible to create clones capable of reproduction and then, equally a precaution, they were made barren. Still, one clone, Sarah Manning (an credible "failure"), was somehow capable of conceiving a child.

It was originally believed that the military close Projection LEDA down, but in actuality, it was just compartmentalized into ii democratic operations: Dyad carried biologically female clones to term and the military faction carried biologically male person clones to term, the latter of which is known by the name Project CASTOR.

The source material for both the female person Project LEDA and the male Project Castor clones was Kendall Malone, a adult female who absorbed a male person twin in the womb during gestation. Known as fetal resorption, this unusual trait meant that she carried both male and female cell lines. Ethan Duncan used Malone as the source for the male person and female person clones, but kept the source material hidden from his colleagues - including his married woman, Susan Duncan.

Research

The research is still ongoing, with most of the projection'southward still nether observation and study. While the male clones were raised self-aware and in the military,^[5] the female clones were non—thus monitors, usually under the guise of a partner or a friend, accept been planted into the lives of the female clones with the objective of observing and keeping tabs on them and reporting on their atmospheric condition to a higher authority. The monitors are apparently ignorant of the real reasons why they are observing the subjects. They are kept in a "double blind," allowing the clones to brand their ain choices so they tin can't skew or impact the results of the experiments.

Inquiry into the female person clone line is apparently fronted by the Dyad Institute, with the monitors of female clones reporting either directly to research supervisors such every bit Donnie Hendrix (Alison'due south monitor) reporting to the then head of research at the Dyad Institute, Aldous Leekie, or indirectly such as Paul Dierden (Beth'southward monitor) answering to Olivier Duval, who in turn reported to Leekie. Research into the female clones is for the most part passive, to avoid making the clones self-enlightened. Information are generally passed on by observations fabricated by monitors, although on occasion, medical tests were conducted without the knowledge of the subjects, such as in their sleep. Research includes exploring the infertility of near female clones and seeking a cure to the illness that has affected many of the female clones, including Katya, Cosima, and Jennifer, ultimately claiming the life of the latter.

Research into the male clone line is fronted by the war machine and conducted by Dr. Virginia Coady. Equally the CASTOR clones were self-enlightened, enquiry was conducted directly with the clones. Coady could be brutal in her methods as noted with Parsons, a clone who had his skull removed to expose the encephalon while conscious. The research objective of the armed forces was manifestly to weaponize a genetic defect in the male clone line which causes seizures in the male clones and causes infertility in whatsoever women the male clones have sexual intercourse with.

The structure and relationship of each of the companies heading research into the clones is unclear. Officially, Neolution is a front for the Dyad institute, which in turn reports to Topside. Even so, in "History All the same to Be Written," it was revealed that Neolution has in fact infiltrated Dyad and Topside and they are the masters pulling the strings when it comes to research into the clones.

Defects

Both sides of the cloning project (Leda and Castor) take defects, some intentionally engineered into their Dna:

• The Leda clones are infertile. Additionally, an machine-immune disorder attacks their epithelial tissues, resulting in a concluding condition characterized by violent fits of coughing up blood and a general feeling of weakness over time.
• The Brush clones have a neurological disease that rapidly makes the clones degenerate and causes intense episodes of vertigo and seizures. Another genetic defect in the male clone line is passing on their own defective protein that causes sterility in women they have sexual intercourse with.

The twins Sarah and Helena are special cases because both are somehow able to fight off these defects.

Crusaders

"	She was just i of a few, unfit for family, equus caballus glue.	"

Years subsequently their experiments, a group of crusaders calling themselves "Proletheans," has begun killing them off. One of them is Maggie Chen, who patently helped create them. They are plainly religious fanatics, with a fish glyph, a universal symbol for fecundity, as their emblem.

While the Onetime Earth brotherhood used to be completely confronting the idea of synthetic biology, the historic period-one-time divide between science and faith has merged under the messianic vision of Henrik Johanssen. Under his leadership, the sect now believes in the righteousness of pushing biological advancements, as long as it is done in the name and under the commandments of God.

With them was another clone, Helena, whom they led to believe she was the original and who has since turned against them, also every bit Mark Rollins, a Castor clone assigned to infiltrate the Prolethean compound later on Henrik stole important genetic cloth from Projection Castor.

Mythology

"	Don't know your mythology, exercise yous, Cal?	"

The cloning projects were aptly named after the Greek and Roman mythological figures Leda and Castor.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were twin brothers, together known as the Dioskouri. Their mother was Leda, but Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the rex of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters: Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.^[6]

Gallery

Behind the Scenes

ORPHAN Blackness Clones on Clones Comic-Con Sectional Making Of - BBC AMERICA

ORPHAN BLACK Insider Three Clones, I Frame - BBC AMERICA - Saturdays 9 8c

Orphan Black Season 3 Insider - The Cloning of Ari Millen

Orphan Black Flavour 3 Insider - The Brush Clones

References

1. ↑ http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/2013/03/30/the-hive-episode-1/2/
2. ↑ http://www.craveonline.com/idiot box/interviews/485615-graeme-manson-on-orphan-blackness
3. ↑ Interview with Graeme Manson, question at 0:06 mark.
4. ↑ http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/orphan-black/cast-crew/ira
5. ↑ http://www.tvguide.com/news/mega-buzz-orphan-black/
6. ↑ http://vertigos.tumblr.com/post/89572598996/in-greek-and-roman-mythology-brush-and-pollux

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