Pros And 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.

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

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").

“Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine”(Douglas Coupland). Around the late 1800s, a man named Hans Adolf Edward Driesch showed how he can make an exact replica of a sea urchin by shaking it and separating the cells. When doing this, he showed that an embryo in early development can grow into its own organism because it has a set of instructions to follow by. This experiment was one of the first ever demonstrations of artificial twinning which recently jump started the research of cloning other organisms. Cloning can either occur naturally like giving birth to twins or it can occur in a lab where scientists are using genetic information from an organism to make another copy of the same organism. It is the process of making an organism identical to another and there are several types of it; reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning and gene cloning. Reproductive cloning is started as a somatic cell nuclear transfer, the embryo is implanted into a surrogate and then it grows and

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).

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").

For quite some time, cloning has been a largely debated topic in society. Most people in the U.S. feel like cloning is morally wrong and takes innocent lives, but others think that it is beneficial and could be a big advancement in modern science. Cloning to produce humans has been outlawed in most countries, but in some, cloning for therapeutic reasons is still a dispute. Cloning can lead to revolutionary medical treatments such as cures for cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and certain forms of heart disease. It could also help treat spinal cord injuries, nervous system injuries, and severe burns. Within the last 50 years there have been several breakthroughs that have only complicated the moral and ethical

A clone is where two organisms share the same exact DNA. These two organisms are the same identical replica of each other. In the past, cloning has taken place naturally. For instance, a couple who naturally conceived and gave birth to identical twins or triplets. Today, science and technology has been introduced to where cloning can intentionally be done. Some people see this type of science and technology of cloning as beneficial to society whereas other people find this type of procedure to be inhumane and not beneficial for any purposes. Science has the ethical obligation to present to the public both the

According to Richard Dawkins “Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought” (Dawkins, 2011). Cloning is a general term used to describe the replication of biological material (Cloning Fact Sheet, 2009). Throughout this paper the reasoning behind why cloning is an acceptable and potentially life changing science will be examined. Along with this we will take a close look at the arguments against cloning and exploring the flaws within the argument. This will affirm that cloning is useful because it cures diseases, passes on genes, and repopulates endangered species.

Human cloning experimentation is a topic that has gotten more awareness in the past few years due to the many scientific discoveries that have been made such as Dolly the sheep. Even with the scientific advancements in cloning of mammals, there have bene many debates about human cloning experimentation or reproductive cloning. In the case of this debate, I think that human cloning experimentation should not occur due to aspects such as benefits to the scientific community, safety, consent, exploitation and morality.

In recent years, cloning has become the hot topic in science. Cloning is the act of duplicating. To clone, scientist use the embryos to genetically construct an identical animal or human of the subject that the embryos came from. A human has never been cloned before, but an animal was cloned in 1996. The animal that was cloned was a sheep named Dolly. Dolly only lived for six years. Since then scientist have been attempting to improve the amount of information that is known about cloning. Many people support cloning, but the act of cloning is immoral, exploratory, expensive, and should be banned.

A massive fire in a wealthy village causes the villages population to decrease by a half. Due to the fact that they have lost half of their population they decide to clone each other.Cloning each other none stop causes the population to increase three times the original amount.This causes a shortage of supplies and space,The clones and people begin to leave the area or stay and die.The people who survived found a new and better life in the cities.The people who decided to stay died of starvation and malnutrition.The people who stayed not only suffered from starvation and malnutrition but crowded,poorly ventilated living spaces,They died from diseases that could be treated,They would die from exposure to the cold too,Overall the people who stayed suffered.