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Is cloning bad or good for us? According to NIH website, it states “there are three different types of artificial cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning.” In our biology textbook it states that cloning makes an identical copy of a gene. Gene cloning replicates genes and DNA segments. Reproductive cloning makes a duplication of an animal. Therapeutic cloning makes embryonic stem cells to help produce tissues to restore damaged or diseased tissues. I believe that cloning technology can help resolve many things, we would be able to learn and develop more things that could help the world.
An example of reproductive cloning is Dolly the sheep. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, which is much more difficult to clone from. She lived to be only 6 years old due to arthritis. They took an udder cell from a six year old Finn Dorset white sheep. They changed the growth medium to keep the udder cell alive but it stopped them from expanding. According to the article “Cloning Dolly The Sheep”,they injected the cell into an unfertilised egg cell and made the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. Therefore, they moved the DNA of the donor animal's …show more content…

According to the website Greengarage, it stated the artificial interference is wrong and can lead to a domino effect, other attributes of life could be altered and have a negative result. This shows that cloning could have a domino effect in nature, if we change one thing it could change everything; the results it could be bad. Furthermore it states “human DNA can be contaminated, and the chances of success are very rare.” This shows that many things could go wrong during cloning and we don’t know if we would be able to solve the problem. Thus, cloning also has disadvantages like interfering with nature and resulting in many

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