Cons Of Cloning

There have been recent studies on animals where the scientist cloned the animals. Cloning is something many people are split on. Some say it is bad some say it is good. I think cloning is a bad thing. Cloning can be a bad thing in many ways. I will be covering some of those ways in this paper.

Recently the world has turned its attention to a new development in science, cloning. Cloning is defined as “the process of producing a clone” (Dictionary.com). This has become a big deal because the endless ways we can bring back extinct creatures. Such as, the extinct wooly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and Quagga. With the endless ability to bring back animal from the past with DNA there comes a problem. With human DNA made available so easily science has come to the idea and process of making designer babies. A designer baby is a baby whose genetic makeup has been selected in order to eradicate a particular defect, or to ensure that a particular gene is present. A family gene might be a bad disease which a baby might get when born. Before this, cloning a baby was science fiction idea to people. It was never imagined or even thought possible, but now it is not. Scientist have already started to create ways to clone babies. With this comes the problem of how far should scientist go? This could be both a blessing and a curse.

Animal cloning started without the world even knowing. First, an animal clone is “an exact physical copy of one ‘parent’” (Newman 12). “Animal cloning experiments began in the 1960’s. Frogs were the first subjects. By 1987 scientists had begun cloning cows and other mammals” (Newman 12). Dolly the sheep was the first big cloning success, credited to Ian Wilmut in 1996 (Praded 21). This sheep was a scientific breakthrough, but it also caused many people to question the intents of scientists. Many people wondered if scientists would clone humans next. The original intent of animal cloning was not for the food industry. The reason animal cloning started was to find a way to help cure currently untreatable diseases (“Why Do Scientists Clone?”). By cloning cells, scientists will be able to manipulate the cells to become something new.

The topic of cloning has brought much debate in science and also in society. Many

The recovery period after large scale injuries could be shortened. The effects are analyzed in an article that states, “True healing could occur thanks to the cloning of their own cells to help the recovery process” (“Pros and Cons” 5). Basically, the process of cloning healthy cells could be used as an aid in replenishing damage of unhealthy cells. This process, if it were to be actualized, could help recovery progress in anything from pulled muscles to the paralysis of an entire limb. In theory, the same research can be applied in other areas. If this technology is paired with stem cell research, it could result in a method of repairing physical damage. An article that focused on advances in biotechnology stated that “Another use of cloned stem cells could be the growth of replacement tissues in the laboratory” (LaPensee 15). Necrosis, apoptosis, and lymphocyte diapedesis all cause tissue damage or death. These tissues could be replaced by cloned cells of healthy tissues. This shortens recovery periods and leads to healthier tissue growth.

There are many arguments against cloning. Leon R. Kass bases his argument on repugnance in his article The Wisdom of Repugnance. He is a well-known physician, educator and scientist. Kass perceives cloning as offensive, grotesque revolting, repulsive and wrong. To establish his argument he states, “Most people recoil from the prospect of mass production or human being, with large clones of look-alikes, compromised in their individuality.”1 His rationale is cloning is unnatural, because it is asexual and requires only one parent. Kass believes that cloning turns natural procreation into a manufactured process, which is not natural or moral. In his essay he also points out that cloning will also change the way we see ourselves through our

Today’s technology develops so quickly that many impossible things become true; the example is cloning technology. Cloning is a process used to create an exact copy of a mammal by using the complete genetic material of a regular body cell. Different from the common propagate, cloning needs only one cell and without sex. Cloning, as of recent years, has become a very controversial issue in society but cloning can have several positive effects for the well being of society. Many people in society believe that scientists should develop a clone human but many people and especially the government are against human cloning. Hundreds of

Cloning is a number of processes that are used to create genetically identical copies of an organism. Researchers have cloned a number of biological materials, such as genes, cells, tissues and whole organisms, including sheep 's and horses. Cloning can happen naturally in identical twins, but it can also be done in a lab. ("Cloning Fact Sheet").

Structure, function, and growth discoveries in biology happen every day. Humans have always questioned if we have the technology and capability to manipulate life. Questions such as: Can scientists replicate DNA and get rid of diseases in DNA? Can we create an almost perfect species? Could we live in the world, where animals are never endangered, and ecosystems would be plentiful of life? A place where cloning animals are improving our way of living and advancing our technology. Yet, in many places around the world cloning on animals, especially humans, there is ban from any sort of experimentation. In the article Dolly the Sheep’s Fellow Clones, Enjoying Their Golden Years, we peek into the misconceptions people have about cloning experimentation.

Cloning is a growing industry of interest to some people. As technology advances, it becomes more viable for many things such as the food industry. The cloning world receives a lot of obvious hate about whether it's morally correct or not or something that should be done, but the positives of cloning could be positive impacts on food the industry, being able to clone your pets or various things with humans but I am here to not give it more hate I'm here to reveal the positives of cloning and explore their ideas.

The cloning of a sheep named Dolly in 1997 sparked a large-scale international debate about the future of the process of creating genetically identical individuals known as clones. New questions needed to be addressed now on a legislative level that were never an issue beforehand. Is it possible to clone human beings? Is it ethical to produce human clones? Is it helpful for science or feasible? Currently, there are two forms of cloning available for science. The first is therapeutic cloning which involves the cloning of human embryos for the purpose of studying and advancing science with the expressed goal of harvesting stem cells for research (Human Genome Project Information, 2008).

Many Americans do not understand how risky it will be to clone a human, not to mention how hard it is to clone an animal. Many news article and publications offer this information to the public, because many scientists will not address the media with the real facts. In an article titled, “Creator of cloned sheep, Dolly, says he wouldn’t want to make copies of humans”, Dr. Wilmut stresses that only 1-5% of those embryos used in cloning result in live animals, and survivors are plagued with obesity, kidney problems and other troubles, and even Dolly is suffering from arthritis (1). Most cloned animals, like cows, pigs, goats, sheep, die during embryonic development, and others are stillborn with monstrous abnormalities. Bloated mothers have laborious miscarriages, and occasionally die themselves. The clones usually struggle for air in intensive care units, only to have to be euthanized, the process of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, according to an MSNBC article titled, “Much confusion over cloning” (1). The risks and uncertainties associated with the current technological state of cloning are the basis for why

On 5 July, 1996, Dr. Ian Wilmut was busy in his garden when he received a phone call that would become breaking news in the scientific community. After decades of research at the Roslin Institute, the first mammal, a lamb, cloned using adult cells was born, and later named Dolly (Cohen). The new knowledge and technology from the process of making Dolly altered scientists’ views and created the foundation for further research on cloning (Shuman).

Scientific experimentation has led us to many great discoveries such as: Chemotherapy, heart surgery, and bone marrow transplants. Recently scientists have discovered a new way to heal humans. This is known as cloning. Although they have yet to clone a human they have cloned sheep. Cloning has brought up a huge controversy among the American people. There are two sides to the story. Either you agree with cloning or you don’t. The only way to help make that decision is to look at the good and bad points of cloning.

The advantage of human cloning is defective genes could eliminated. “The average person carries 8 defective genes inside them.” (Smith, n.d.). Nowadays, defective illness may not be the killer of human but they could be in our future life. As humans continually reproduce, damage to their DNA line increases. This causes the defective genes to exist. This defective genes could be eliminate and damage through the process of human cloning. The healthy genes can be produced by cloning other healthy human cells such as skin cells. That is why it may be possible that we no longer suffer because of our defective genes through human cloning and its technology.