human cloning
What if you were able to pick your child? Imagine just looking through a beauty magazine and pointing a finger, saying, "That's the one", and 9 months later the person that you have picked is born. This concept is not that far out of reach. In the near future a woman can give birth to any person in the world, whether they be alive or even dead. Even Albert Einstein can be born again. How you ask? Human cloning has been studied a great deal over the past few years, and one day may be perfected. What an amazing scientific breakthrough this would be. But, is it as wonderful as it sounds? Some say yes, but many also say no. Cloning is a difficult process. Experiments on cloning started as early as the 1950's. These early attempts at cloning targeted frogs, salamanders, and other amphibians. If these organisms reproduced asexually it would have been simple to clone because there is only one parent cell. However, when dealing with larger organisms, such as mammals, a more complicated procedure will be needed. This is because two sex cells are needed to reproduce. The nucleus of the egg must be destroyed and removed. The nucleus of a body cell from the same species is then removed and injected into the eg
After Dolly, there was much skepticism surrounding the authenticity of the clone produced by the Roslin experimenters. Many scientists say that they may not be exact clones of each other due to the method used. The cells were allowed to grow and to be reprogrammed when fused with the egg. Three years after Dolly any doubt disappeared when biologists from the University of Hawaii produced 50 mice that were exact clones of an adult mouse. If cloning were to become legal, there should be rules that would regulate how and when it should be able to take place. One rule that should be enforced is that if a family wishes to clone a lost child, then the original child being cloned should not have been over the age of 18 months old when it died. After this age, a human being starts to obtain a personality. If a personality emerges, then the new cloned child will not be at all like the old one. After all, it is a child's environment that dictates how it will live its life and perceive life. It would be impossible to reproduce the exact life of the old child, which would be needed in order to ensure that the same exact child, personality and all, is created. In order to gain all the knowledge needed to produce a perfect clone, there are many trials and errors needed. This would call for many, many embryos to be both created and destroyed. Destroying these embryos would most likely stir up lots of trouble within the world. I feel that before any human cloning takes place, scientists should first master the cloning of monkeys, which are in the same scientific classification as humans and most similar to humans. If we can copy people just by acquiring their DNA, then it would be possible to give life to a person that is already dead. There are museums that contain locks of Napoleon's hair. In the near future, Napoleon can be seen walking around the streets of a city. Also, if dead people can be reborn, then so can dead animals. A lot of animals look alike and they all act alike so why would we want to reproduce a certain animal? This process can be used on extinct animals. This means that dinosaurs may be engineered. Do-Do birds can once again flourish. However, nature decided that these creatures should not roa
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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