The 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.

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").

There are actually many benefits that would come with cloning, such as being able to cure defective genes s, many cosmetic surgeries, and possibly, being able to cure cancer. The way that cloning would be able to cure defective genes, would be by cloning the same genes, but altering them to be benefit the human body rather than be a negative aspect.

Cloning is the process of creating a copy of something. In genetics cloning refers to the process of making an identical copy of the DNA of an organism. Human cloning is basically making a person exactly like the other, same exact features and characteristics etc. There are three different types of cloning and they are Recombinant DNA Technology or DNA cloning, Reproductive cloning, and Therapeutic cloning. Cloning can cause many problems to the animal that is being cloned making it impossible for them to live a normal life.

Cloning is an extremely debated topic in the scientific community. Cloning occurs naturally in plants and in bacteria, but scientists have developed an artificial kind of cloning (1). Reproductive cloning is the process of cloning an animal. This process includes removing the nucleus from a donor animal and removing a somatic cell from an adult female animal. Then, the nucleus and the egg cell are fused, using

Cloning is the process of replicating an identical copy of cells and or body parts and it can go as far as even a whole organism. Cloning has been a very debatable subject of matter for many years and it will for many more to come. Cloning was first established in 1885 with a demonstration with artificial embryo twinning. Cloning eventual became more complex and from there it stemmed off and cloning of animals was possible. Dolly the sheep was the first example of cloning of animals in July 5, 1996. Another area cloning stemmed off to stem cell research which was first discovered in Germany by a biologist Ernst Haeckel. There are many forms of cloning such as full on cloning of an animal. Another part of cloning is replicating organs

Human cloning has always been a highly controversial issue. To be able to clone a human or not be able to? That is the question. Some believe human cloning is the next step in science and should be something worthy of experimenting on; conversely, others think human cloning is unethical and shouldn’t be something scientists should be studying. Human cloning could have many problems and shouldn’t be experimented on.

This article is neutral and serves as an informative piece to give a general overview of cloning and both sides. The article gives information on the three types of cloning, history and the opposing points of view throughout history, and more current information about cloning. The authors reference many opinions of both the supporting and opposing groups of cloning, but they do not advocate for one side over the other. The authors of the second article “Counterpoint: Human Cloning Treats Human Life as a Commodity”, opposes cloning because the authors believe that it is harmful to animals and immoral. In this article, the authors state more arguments that do not support cloning and that a minority of Americans support cloning. However, it briefly states that Christians and Protestants have mixed feelings about genetically recombining DNA, and some people from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism do not oppose therapeutic cloning. Even though a portion of the article mentions that some religious groups support some types of cloning, the majority of the article opposes

Cloning is typically the action of creating a genetic copy of an organism. Clones can come about naturally, or in a lab. Naturally, bacteria and some plants are able to produce on their own. They do this by pretty much splitting in half and growing from there. They reproduce how our cells do so to speak. Natural cloning can also occur in animals. In animals, clones can occur when a zygote, or embryo splits in half at least once. This creates two identical eggs with the same DNA. According to the National Human Genome Research Institute’s section on cloning, there are three different types of artificial cloning. Those types of cloning include gene cloning, therapeutic cloning, and reproductive cloning. Gene cloning is when they take a piece of foreign DNA, or a gene, and insert it into a vector, which

Clones have been in history books for ages and they were always questioned, they have been though up of for many different reasons. These reasons are from making an amusement park to helping with medical issues. The problem lie with should it be done for any reason some people would say there is no problem and should continue while others think that there is a problem and should be ceased. Scientists have endeavored to figure cloning out, all for a good cause although ethically it should be stopped for a multitude reasons. It could diminish the value of people and other living creatures that have survived the mundane way, it also costs more than it should for the physical amount that emerges from it, additionally the fact that it could threaten the lives of an abundance of humans and other animals.

Human cloning will influence us on what will happen in the future. Will God turn on everyone in society? how will our clone act toward us? and

The cloning of humans is now very close to reality, thanks to the historic scientific breakthrough of Dr. Ian Wilmut and his colleagues in the UK. This possibility is one of incredible potential benefit for all of us. Unfortunately the initial debate on this issue has been dominated by misleading, sensationalized accounts in the news media and negative emotional reactions derived from inaccurate science fiction. Much of the negativity about human cloning is based simply on the breathtaking novelty of the concept rather than on any real undesirable consequences. On balance, human cloning would have overwhelming advantages if regulated in a reasonable way. A comprehensive ban on human cloning by a misinformed public would be a sorry

Cloning is a useful techniques in producing breed that are genetically identical to valuable adults. The procedure of producing new organism that identical to each other often gave a question a mark whether it should be done or it is prohibited for the human rights and science. Hence, different perspective often come out which the cloning may have advantages that could be used to save life and prolong the life time or it also can cause harm to the organism.