Yes. The process has its limitations.

Limits?

The transfer of the chromosomal data is never accomplished with complete fidelity. There are… anomalies, infinitesimally small in each case, but the cumulative effect of such - chaotic - pollution... can be observed after only a dozen or so generations, and what you see before you is a 130th generation facsimile. I am but a faint, distorted echo of myself.

But you were always distorted by your obsession.

But is it not... everyone’s obsession? [dies]