<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Following is an excerpt of a response Jan Schlauer made to an earlier inquiry to this same subject on the CP Listserv:
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I guess any car that looks identical to a '1966 yellow Volkswagon beetle' is just the same as any other car that looks identical to a '1966 yellow Volkswagon beetle', even if it were made in a different factory, on a different day, by different assembly workers, using parts from different part lots, created with slightly different materials and assembled in a different order, etc. You would still consider it a '1966 yellow Volkswagon beetle' and I appreciate the fact that it has a universally recognizable name. I would hate to try to have a conversation with anyone concerning it, if it were just called something like, "small yellow car", "yellow car made in Germany', "yellow bug car", etc. Especially so, if others were expected to join the conversation and each one had their own idea about what to call the car and each one called it something different from every other person involved in this conversation, boy now wouldn't that be fun?</span>
[b said:Quote[/b] ]Cultivars do not necessarily need to be clones (ICNCP Art.2.6.). They
may be clones (Art.2.7.), topophysic clones (Art.2.8.), cyclophysic
clones (Art.2.9.), derived from aberrant growth (2.10.), graft-
chimaeras (2.11.), assemblages grown from seed derived from
uncontrolled pollination (2.12.), lines (2.13.), multilines (2.14.),
F1 hybrids (2.15.), assemblages grown from seed from a particular
provenance (2.16.), or assemblages of genetically modified plants
(2.17.).
The ultimate killer of the clone dogma is Art. 2.18.:
"In considering whether two or more groups of cultivated plants
belong to the same or different cultivars, the origin of each group
is irrelevant. All indistinguishable variants, irrespective of their
origin, are treated as one cultivar." (!)
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I guess any car that looks identical to a '1966 yellow Volkswagon beetle' is just the same as any other car that looks identical to a '1966 yellow Volkswagon beetle', even if it were made in a different factory, on a different day, by different assembly workers, using parts from different part lots, created with slightly different materials and assembled in a different order, etc. You would still consider it a '1966 yellow Volkswagon beetle' and I appreciate the fact that it has a universally recognizable name. I would hate to try to have a conversation with anyone concerning it, if it were just called something like, "small yellow car", "yellow car made in Germany', "yellow bug car", etc. Especially so, if others were expected to join the conversation and each one had their own idea about what to call the car and each one called it something different from every other person involved in this conversation, boy now wouldn't that be fun?</span>