The Pros And Cons Of Animal Cloning

In the late 1800s scientist, Herbert John Webber introduced the uncertain topic of cloning. He suggested that “clons[sic]” were the groups of plants that were created with any form of vegetative process, in which all of the offspring came from the same individual. This term was viewed as fact and was later adopted into the word “clone” by Charles Louis Pollard.

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.

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

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

A genetically engineered animal is one that contains altered genetic material to give the animal new traits or characteristics. There are many animals that have been genetically modified for example, mice, pigs, cows and sheep are just a few of the animals they experiment on. Most genetic engineering is directed toward providing more benefits to our society which can be ethically contentious. In reproductive cloning (animal cloning) researchers remove a mature skin cell from the animal that they want to copy then, they transfer it into a egg that has removed its DNA-containing nucleus. The clones are superior breeding animals that will produce healthier offspring. There is both upsides and downsides to genetic engineering and animal cloning. In the United States animal cloning is regulated by the FDA or, Food and Drug Administration and for the most part is not considered to be illegal. There are also close to no laws regulating genetic engineering in animals in the United States.

Should people not be allowed to clone animals? Some people see cloning animals as bad, but some people see cloning as a good thing. Cloning should not be illegal because it has great future effects in daily life, saving endangered species, and scientist can use them as test subjects.

According to Kathleen R. Brooks and Jayson L. Lusk (2011) Animal cloning is a process in which scientists can copy the genetic or inherited traits of an animal.

Cloning is a biological process of making genetically copy it would be copy of a single cell or whole animal. The first mammal cloned Dolly the sheep. There are three types of cloning: they are (1) the recombinant DNA technology or DNA cloning or gene cloning, (2) reproductive cloning, and (3) the therapeutic cloning.

Cloning is defined as the “creation of an exact copy of a living matter, such as a cell or organism” according to Encarta encyclopedia. The copies produced through cloning have identical genetic makeup and are known as clones. Scientists use cloning techniques in the laboratory to create copies of cells or organisms with valuable traits.

Cloning is an individual grown from a single somatic cell or cell nucleus and genetically identical to it. Cloning should not be permitted or continued to be studied here in the United States or even in other nations, because aging faster, interference with nature and religious ethics, reduces individuality, failed attempts, and degrading organs.

For the past few years, scientists have been working on a cloning experiment. Cloning is where one thing is taken and and another one is made. One just like it. Mostly, animals have been cloned. They have been cloned with many fails, and some success.

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

What is Animal Cloning? It is defined as a cell, group of cells, or an organism that is produced asexually from and is identical to a single ancestor. Cloning is also known as the nuclear cloning methodology using the nuclear transfer in early 1950’s. Animal Cloning was first tried in amphibians. The main problem in animal cloning up to this time is the efficiency of the process, how effective it is for us. The current efficiency of Nuclear Transfer is poor. The product of nuclear transfer is not really a clone because it possesses

The well known Oxford professor and biologist, Richard Dawkins, once said, “ 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 ”. Cloning is the process of copying or creating a biological unit exactly. Some believe that cloning is a phenomenon made up by scientist, but even in biology, cloning is proven to be in some cases, a natural process. For example, a number of plants and single-celled organism reproduce genetically identical offspring and there are also identical twins that are reproduced by mammals. However, “man-made” cloning is called artificial cloning, which can be human cloning, gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and more. The first ever artificial cloning experiment was done on sea urchins. The reason the scientist chose the sea urchin is because it is a simple organism. The scientist, Hans Dreisch, got two sea urchin embryos and shook them. He discovered that when he did that, each sea urchin separated into another sea urchin cell and grew into a whole other sea urchin. That then, paved the way for further research on cloning. Multiple experiments and studies on cloning have been done on animals and cells. Nonetheless, cloning is still very mysterious, comes with risks, and messes with the mindset of average people, therefore, cloning is immoral.