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 good reasons to both develop cloning and incorporate it into modern medicine. Human cloning is extremely beneficial, but there are some downsides. Many of the problems are ethical in nature. Matthew Nisbet involved the public in his article. He polled the public on their opinions about human cloning and stem cell research. He found that “The public appears to have strong reservations about research that destroys embryos”

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 has been one of the most widely discussed and controversial scientific topics in the past decade. Cloning has been applied in many fields including the creation of new breeds of plants and animals. However, the cloning of plants has been practiced for hundreds of years. Cloning can be done on a larger level in animals and has potential benefits. The general process of cloning is to take one cell from the parent making the offspring and parent genetically identical (Tsunoda and Kato, 158-161). In addition by making completely identical cells, we can apply different treatments to different clones to see if they react in different ways. The potential benefits of cloning out way the consequences of cloning. In this paper I will first elaborate on microorganisms. Then I will talk about plants, animal and human cloning, and the controversies in cloning.

Certain terms relative to cloning should be determined prior to the primary argument. Firstly, we may define cloning as “The act of asexually

The ethical value of a person is to do what is safe and what will be a great benefit for the public. Human cloning is a topic that a health care provider should heavily think about. Although there are advantages to this technological process, there are more negatives that outweigh the positives. The process of human cloning involves many complications such as interfering with the distinctiveness and individuality of a person, dignity, later development, and most importantly the debate concerning the issue of destroying embryos. The ethical issues dealing with human cloning is beyond the problems of the scientists. Currently, animal cloning is still a very ineffective process. We must solve the first problem before moving on to the next.

Americans today tend to believe that cloning we become a big part in our society in the future, but in the discussion of cloning, there has been many controversies, for instance the cloning of livestock for food or the business of cloning pets.On the other hand people have taken advantage of this to make businesses to gain income.Scientific research in the field of cloning should be used for the benefit of humanity and shouldn’t be taken advantage of marketing for profit.

Is it right to transplant someone else’s organ into another body who’s in need of one, is it wrong to clone other organisms to gain certain genes to benefit humans for survival. This has been a controversial topic for a long time now. People are arguing if it’s wrong or right to transplants other people organs from the earlier scientific development. Now there is a new issue about cloning, whether it is right or wrong to make a copy of an organism.

Cloning is a method that involves creating a duplicate of the original body or organism. In organism such as bacteria this process occurs naturally through asexual reproduction. In modern world, genetically identical off springs can be produced in lab with the help of modern genetic technology. There are three types of cloning. They are gene, reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Gene cloning is essentially recombinant DNA technology, where a piece of foreign DNA is inserted into a vector, which can be copied by a host cell. Therapeutic cloning involves the production of patient-matched stem cells for disease treatment. Reproductive cloning is the process by which a whole organism is cloned. First, a cell is taken from the organism that is being cloned. The DNA from this donor cell is then transferred to an egg cell whose DNA has been removed. The successful cloning of animals has been happening for a number of years now, which has opened up the possibility of cloning humans too. It cannot be contradicted that there are many ways in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind. Some of the major benefits of human cloning are: it can be used to reverse heart attack, treatment for skin burn patient, heart, lungs, liver and kidney could be produced. However, some benefit like reversing the aging process and cosmetic surgery solely for the beauty purpose is considered as a worrying development in this field. Although there are clear benefits to humankind of cloning to

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.

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing, or previously existing, human being or growing cloned tissue from that individual (Science Daily). It does not occur naturally. Cloning used to be a subject that would only arise in science fiction novels and movies; now it is one of the most controversial topics today and becoming a reality. Cloning has came up in popular movies such as Star Trek Nemesis and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (“Best Clone Movies”). If human cloning has been featured in movies such as these, what makes this so unacceptable? What’s the harm in having a clone of yourself walking around? Plants and animals have already been successfully cloned (“10 Advantages and”). The next step is… humans. Human cloning violates human rights and morals. “If we fail to ban all forms of human cloning, society’s continued ability to regulate or ban future scientific research will be seriously diminished in the name of autonomy and utilitarianism” (Weldon). Human cloning is unethical and should stay banned.

From merely shaking two-celled embryos of a sea urchin to human embryonic stem cells being created by somatic cell nuclear transfer, genetic modifications continue to improve. In 1885, Hans Adolf Edward Dreisch, found that he could get two sea urchins by shaking the two-celled embryos. After this discovery the progression of genetic modifications led to the conflictions concerning the ethics of this process. Too much time and money has already been wasted on cloning. Human cloning, and those practicing it, would cause the controversy to go worldwide and continue to be a debate even today. Human cloning should not be up for debate, it should in fact be banned worldwide.

Human Cloning is a practice for constructing several replicas of genetically identical organisms or of individual genes. When discussing cloning, there are numerous levels. The first level of cloning being when the DNA is cloned (recombinant DNA technology), the second level being duplication of the single cell (gene cloning), and the third level being the replication of the whole organism (reproductive cloning). The replication of the whole organism is commonly known to be the ethical issue. With that being said, whole organism cloning will be the specific type of cloning this assignment will be focusing on. The reason whole organism cloning is an ethical issue is because it is considered “dual-use” which means that it has both the potential to be good and bad. Replication cloning has currently not successfully produced a completely developed human although it has been practiced on multiple different animals, Dolly the sheep that was cloned in 1996 being the most effective of all. Cloning is practiced all around the world on animals, although the closest scientists have come to cloning a human was in 1997 when a monkey was cloned. Human reproductive cloning is illegal in Canada though therapeutic cloning is not. The difference between therapeutic and reproductive cloning is that therapeutic cloning is when embryos and tissues are genetically cloned for research purposes, however they are not essentially implanted into a female host to be fully developed, whereas in

When the subject of cloning is brought up, many people expect to see an exact replica of a person, including the same age. However, there is much more to cloning than creating an identical person from the original. A clone is defined to be a cell or organism that is genetically indistinguishable to the original cell or organism from which it is acquired (Rogers, 2015). Cloning was introduced in 1903 by Herbert J. Webber, who was an American plant scientist and used cloning in reference to plants that had been assembled through asexual propagation by horticultural methods. “Plants that are propagated asexually, whether from twigs or cuttings of other parts or from bulbs or buds, are exact genetic replicas of their parent plant” (Rogers, 2015). In nature, cloning happens all the time. Thesis: There are many different topics to cloning other than the subject that began the idea of cloning. Over the years, the topics of human cloning and animal cloning have been discussed bringing debate on ethical issues and whether there are any advantages or disadvantages.