Embryo Twinning Vs Natural Cloning

The surrogate mother will ultimately give birth to an identical twin to the donor of the somatic cell (“The Process of Cloning”). This process allows people to clone living things of any sort.

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.

It seems to be as if cloning is the new topic society can not stop talking about. Some people do not know what it is or they confuse the difference between the different type of cloning. There are two types of cloning therapeutic and reproductive cloning and there is a big difference between the both. Reproductive cloning is cloning a whole new organism while therapeutic cloning focuses on cloning an organ such as a heart, a kidney, a liver, and so on. Cloning of a body part is extremely helpful and essential to the survival of the human race. Cloning body parts also known as therapeutic cloning is the key to live a longer happy life because this procedure creates vital organs that can help people from suffering, it prevents other diseases, and it is much safer than reproductive cloning.

Why did scientists keep animal cloning a secret for so long? Did the scientists know that animal cloning would cause controversies? Do the bans on animal cloning actually prevent scientists from advancing cloning technology? Did scientists think that their discovery would help or even hurt the food industry? Animal cloning could help the food industry as long as its negatives do not outweigh the positives.

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.

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

Human reproductive cloning is a type of cloning that involves somatic cell nuclear transfer and the embryo duplicates the genome of solely one parent, a type of asexual reproduction that is foreign to the human species. This form of reproduction differs from normal sexual reproduction where the baby duplicates genomes of both parents (Hayry 2003). Despite popular beliefs that view reproductive cloning as a carbon copy of human beings, in actuality it creates a genetically and physically identical twin of its progenitor but socially and psychologically it reproduces an unique human being (Morales 2009).

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

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").

Clones are like identical twins only born at different times. Similar to in vitro fertilization, cloned animals begin in a laboratory, but then are born to surrogate mothers.

I would like to introduce myself as Brian Sierra. I am a junior at Dinuba High School in California. A new bill just came up and it allows the use of taxpayer money to found both therapeutic and reproductive cloning research of all animals and humans. I am going to tell you all the advantages and all the good stuff we could do with both ways of reproduction. I want to tell you that I am approving this subject because reproductive and therapeutic cloning would really benefit a lot of people’s life. Even though a lot of people are against both ways of cloning. They just talk about the disadvantages and the problems that is has. Cloning could be used in a good way and I am going to tell you the advantages and all the good stuff we could do with both ways of cloning.

However, natural cloning is not the only example of identical copies seen in the world. Artificial cloning is the more common example used in science. There are three commonly known “types of artificial cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning” (“Cloning Fact Sheets”). These types of cloning provide identical copies of many biological aspects such as genes and larger segments of DNA. Gene cloning is “creates copies of genes or segments of DNA” whereas reproductive cloning “creates copies of whole animals” (“Cloning”). Finally, therapeutic cloning “creates embryonic cells” which are used in the hope of growing healthy tissue (“Cloning”). Animal cloning has helped many scientists to better understand genomes and review genes/DNA. In the

Therapeutic and rReproductive cloning can change the world, in not just one, but many other ways. Cloning can help countries and it would make the U.S not just a good state, but a better countrystate. Tax payer money should fund cloning, because it can replace damaged organs, produce livestock for the countries that are in need, and also help couples that can’t have children.

Stem cells research is often confused with cloning because both areas involve the use of embryonic cells. Both fields have got even more confused when the term therapeutic cloning was introduced as a means to produce embryonic stem cells. While stem cell research involves the use of several different types of cells besides embryonic stem cells, such as adult stem cells from humans or animals or stem cells from fetuses or amniotic fluid. Reproductive cloning is the process by which an embryo is created by nuclear transfer and implanted into a surrogate mother for bringing it to term. After the birth the clone would be the genetic copy of the adult whose nucleus is used of cloning. The therapeutic cloning uses cloning technology to develop stem cells for research and ultimately for therapy. Whereas, stem cells are the foundation cells for every organ, tissue and cell in the body.

This means that they share the same set of genetic instructions. However, they are not clones. In cloning, a embryo is scientifically engineered, split, and implanted, while identical twins occur naturally. However, the similarities can cause many to refer to identical twins as "natural clones'.