send in the clones

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It is hard to say if cloning is an answer to a problem or just another problem for the human race. There have been books, movies, and even stories about mankind creating their own species of humans. A good example of what could happen if mankind learns to clone itself is Mary Shelly's' Frankenstein. A classic novel demonstrating what could happen when mankind takes the power of "God" in our own hands. Cloning is physically a new science but ethically is a century old debate.

A clone is a group of genetically identical cells that are borrowed from a single cell by asexual methods and used to create a new cell identical to the first ones. Cloning happens everyday in the human body, muscle creates more muscle, the cells in the mouth, and the walls of the large intestines are constantly dividing. Besides for the human body, plants also are able to procreate by asexual means also create plants that are identical to them.

"The body cells of adult animals and humans can be routinely cloned in the laboratory. Adults cells of various tissues, such as muscle cells, that are removed from the donor animal and maintained on a culture medium while receiving nutrients manage not only to survive but to go on d

"one million dollars to finance the first attempt". (National Geographic Society)

Clonaid plans on making this service available to anyone who can afford it and especially to homosexuals, infertile couples, and couples who have lost a child. Although it appears that they are attempting to provide a good-deed service to people who need it some experts do disagree. Dr. Stephen Post an ethicists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine said;

Just to see the chances of a cloned embryo coming to terms look at the cloning of the Spanish mountain goats. The guar is a species that has gone extinct. To create the guar clone 692 skin cells were taken from the last dead guar and fused with cow eggs which had been stripped of their nucleus. (The nucleus is comparable to the yolk of an egg.) The 81 cow/ guar eggs that actually developed into embryos only 44 were implanted into cows. Of that only eight cows became pregnant, and five of them miscarried. Of the three remaining, three fetuses were removed from two of them and the one remaining pregnant appears to be OK. So 81a44a8a1, one single animal from all that work done. Granted it is arguable that this was worth it to replace an extinct animal but the animal won't even be pure guar. The newly born animal will have some cow DNA as well and now there will be a new species not the replacement of an old one.

Humans may think that we've found the answer to so many problems, when actually we have just opened the door to cloning, but that's not the only door. Scientists seem to be the only ones who want to use th

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