How many people actually get their hands on so called "elite" clones? And just like my challenge of telling a organic bud from a nutrient fed bud, I say anyone trying to tell you they can tell bud from a clone from bud from seed of the same strain is also full of shit. With a properly bred strain, grown by a competent grower, there will be very little variation among plants, you'd likely have to grow 1000 or more to find one that was superior to the rest and then the only way to really prove that would be with cannabiniod testing. No the whole clone only thing is just more cannabis mythos used to drive sales and keep profit margins high. They may have claim to being the original of a particular cross, but the certainly doesn't make it the best.