Do cloned mammals have belly buttons?
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It’s a fact of life — no matter how placental a mammal is, clones don’t have belly buttons. While animals born from eggs such as birds, reptiles and fish lack a true navel due to not having a mammalian umbilical cord, they do sometimes have small markings or scars from where they were attached to their egg yolks.
The newborn’s stump of an umbilical cord, left from where the cord was cut or chewed off, falls off on its own within a week of the baby’s birth. So humans have had belly buttons that look much like the ones we have today, for millions of years.
What is the purpose of the human belly button?
Your belly button marks the spot where your umbilical (say: um-BIL-ih-kul) cord was once attached. This cord is a soft, bendable tube that carried nutrients — vitamins and minerals — from your mother to you, back when you were in her belly (womb). A belly button is also called a navel.
Would a cloned human have a belly button?
A belly button comes when the umbilical cord is removed. If the clones are birthed from artificial wombs or machines that feature some sort of umbilical cord, then they do have navels.
Some people don’t have a belly button, and the reason for this may be related to surgical history or just an anomaly in how the belly button formed (or didn’t, for that matter). Most of the time, if you don’t have a belly button, it’s related to a surgery or a medical condition you had when you were younger.
Q: Belly buttons are a curious feature of the human physique. Only placental mammals will have belly buttons. Marsupials, such as kangaroos, koalas and opossums, give birth to relatively underdeveloped young. Before they are born, they get their nutrients from a yolk sac in their mother’s womb.
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Would a clone have a belly button?
What is belly button surgery? Belly button surgery, or umbilicoplasty, is a procedure in which those that were born with excessive skin in their belly button (an outie) have the excess skin removed. This procedure can also be performed to fix hernias and put the skin in and around the belly button in the proper place.