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Is Cloning Morally Right Or Wrong

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Everyday scientists come up with new ideas that can change how humans live. But not all the things scientist came up with are morally right. Usually new ways to do things cause a lot of controversy and debate. Cloning is a great example of a scientific subject that causes debate weather it is morally right or not. Cloning started with the cloning of carrot plants in 1957. Plants are the easiest things to clone because they technically do it naturally through asexual reproduction (Petechuk). "A clone is a cell that is identical to the cell it was derived from" (Petechuk). With that said, there are three kinds of cloning: gene cloning, twinning, and nuclear transfer. In 1964 the first animal cells were cloned. 20 years later we finally figured out how to clone mammals, and it all started with mice. This started the era of cloning animals (Petechuk). …show more content…

Dolly was cloned "using cells from the mammary glands of an adult sheep and an egg cell from which the nucleus had been removed" (Petechuk). Dolly took 277 tries to get her right. Many people question if Dolly could be called a real living animal. I think she proved many people wrong when she gave birth to healthy babies (Aldridge). Even though Dolly was a huge success and a big step forward in cloning science, she did die young. Her chromosomes were shorter than the average sheep. Cloning in animals can also cause diseases (Petechuk). After Dolly, cloning has done some miracles like bringing back an extinct species called the Ibex. The Ibex was a mountain goat from Spain. Scientists saved skin from the goat and cloned it. It died shortly after birth (LaPensee). So animal cloning as you can see has not been perfected but still is improving every

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