DNA And Cloning Controversy

Genetic cloning is one of the most controversial topics of all time. People, specifically scientists, are constantly searching for ways to improve the quality of human life. As a result, they began genetically engineering animals and are currently in search of a method to genetically engineer humans as well; which is called human cloning. There are many reasons why people should not go forward with this step since genetic cloning, consequently human cloning, does not respect nature nor does it ensure diversity and survival in natural ecosystems. In addition, genetic cloning is a cruel, harsh, and an unsafe experiment.

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.

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

I am a sophomore at James Kenan High, I plan on graduating next year as a junior and attending UNC once I graduate. As part of a graduation requirement my school requires me to write a research paper on a topic of my interest. My graduation project is about cloning technology, specifically focused on how it will help fix genetic disorders and save seriously ill patients who have cancer, Alzheimer's or other illnesses. If you could provide some information on how you think cloning could help find a cure or at least find a better and more efficient treatment for patients with cancer and/or other diseases you feel like would benefit from cloning and since you are a pathologist how do you think cloning could affect diseases like

A mad scientist stands in one part of a double-chambered machine, leaving the other empty. As he presses a button, gears begin to whir and smoke. A bright light flashes, and out of the empty chamber steps a perfect replica of the scientist, complete with clothes and command of the English language.

Science today is developing at warp speed. We have the capability to do many things, which include the cloning of actual humans! First you may ask what a clone is? A clone is a group of cells or organisms, which are genetically identical, and have all been produced from the same original cell. There are three main types of cloning, two of which aim to produce live cloned offspring and one, which simply aims to produce stem cells and then human organs. These three are: reproductive cloning, embryo cloning and therapeutic cloning. The goal of therapeutic cloning is to produce a healthy copy of a sick person's tissue or organ for transplant, and the goal of both reproductive cloning and embryo cloning is to

Although there are many benefits to cloning and stem cell research, there is much to debate on the ethics. Many people feel that the scientific community are attempting to play “God”, while others do not see the harm if such research and experiments are used to benefit the well-being of man-kind. I will attempt to draw a conclusion on the ethics of stem cell research with this essay. Are cloning and stem cell research ethical?

First and foremost, to argue a point on cloning, one must know what cloning is. Summed up, “cloning is the process whereby organisms, cells, or microorganisms are copied to produce an almost identical genotype.” (Adam Fox) Potentially cloning makes us one step closer to immortality and a perfect world. But honestly, isn't that what Hitler wanted to achieve? Didn't Hitler want to kill all of the jews because he thought they had wronged the country, and keep all of the “perfect people”? Cloning people is making a copy of another person. A movie called “the island” sums up perfectly to what it is was like being a clone. Scientists are working on being able to clone a person genics and making a copy of a person. It is crazy, right?

Is cloning your pets the next big thing? Cloning is a process that that takes thousands of dollars to do. Cloning can also be a risk for the animal that your cloning . Something can go wrong and your pet can be something that you don't want. Cloning is wrong to do in many ways.

Cloning shouldn’t be legal, people will have no idea how it will turn out. There are many ways why it shouldn’t, it’s expensive, unethical and it can cause alterations of the body (development issues). Cloning humans shouldn’t be legal. Cloning takes a long process and could end very good or terrible. Cloning shouldn’t be legal. Is it necessary to clone, yes but only for scientific reasons, if someone tried to clone something without knowledge or experience it could go very bad. What do people think of cloning?

Did you know that people clone themselves or animals for multiple purposes Cloning is an identical copy of a human, animal, or food. Cloning should be illegal because is goes against religion, they are given special education for intense get placed in a 15 to 1 class, and it cost a lot of money to have a clone.

The belief of cloning is morally wrong to those who are religious because it is a god-like power, but it has been studied for decades on end. Until recently, cloning was merely a dream, but the first successful clone was a sheep that was named Dolly, which took place on 1996. Over the years, cloning, has become more advanced and sophisticated but will only advance further as both science and technology advance. An author by the name of R. Dobson had written “…A family of genetically modified insects is being developed in an attempt to rid the world of killer diseases. A designer bug that can no longer pass on Chugs disease, which affects around 20 million people a year has been created by scientists who want to use the

    Despite evidence that nearly all cloned animals are plagued by significant genetic abnormalities, two scientist groups have announced their plans to impregnate women with cloned embryos, each proposing to create the world's first cloned human being.

Human cloning is the process that refers to the copying and replicating identical copies of humans using genetic engineering methods. Cloning can help and solve problems such as cloning in medicine, or to clone humans. We are going to look at the human cloning and its pros, cons, how is it done and the ethical issues of human cloning.

Imagine a world where disease was non-existent, long term injuries could be healed in half the time, a world where our life spans could be greatened to an extent never seen before by man. This could be achieved with the cloning of humans, artificial cloning is the next evolutionary step for mankind.Although many would claim human cloning is unethical and dangerous, there are procedures at hand currently that are far from that. The act of human cloning allows for treatment of otherwise incurable diseases, new medical recovery rates, as well as allow technology to advance exponentially.