Cloning

A detailed Summary of Cloning

The possibility of human cloning, raised when Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute created the first successful animal clone of a sheep, "Dolly."

Cloning refers to copying genes and other pieces of chromosomes to generate enough identical material for further study. Two other types of cloning

produce complete, genetically identical animals. Blastomere separation (sometimes called "twinning" after the naturally occurring process that creates identical twins) involves splitting a developing embryo soon after fertilization of the egg by a sperm (sexual reproduction) to give rise to two or more embryos. The resulting organisms are identical twins (clones) containing DNA from both the mother and the father. Dolly, on the other hand, is the result of another type of cloning that produces an animal carrying the DNA of only one parent. Using somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists transferred genetic material from the nucleus of an adult sheep's udder cell to an egg whose nucleus, and thus its genetic material, had been removed. (All cells that are not egg or sperm cells are somatic cells.) One goal of this and similar research is to develop efficient ways to alter animals genetically and reproduce them reliably. Alterations have i

There are many pros and cons to the cloning of humans. Many people are against cloning because they feel that cloning is as much moral problem as a technical problem. To some it seems like "playing God," and interfering with the natural process.There are, of course problems regarding susceptibility to disease, expense, and diversity. Others are worried about the abuses of cloning. For example some corrupt people like Saddam Hussein, for example, may try to create superhumans. Also if humans can be cloned, it makes them property, which can be sold. This is just inhumane. I agree that it is wrong to kill someone so that you can "harvest" his body parts, whether that person is an adult, a child, or an embryo. When you make a clone you are creating just another living and thinking human. People may just treat them as pets or something lesser than sentient beings.But people can and have treated others as property, we call it "slavery" ,for years, and to date none of the slaves have been clones. And one can surely imagine clones being created who are not abused in any way. Treating people as property and killing them for your convenience is terrible, but these things happened before anybody thought of cloning. For centuries, black people have been the victims of racism and injustice. Does this mean that the solution to racism is to make it illegal for black people to have childr

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