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    Cloning is biologically defined as “a plant or animal that is grown from one cell of its parent, and that has exactly the same genes as its parent” (“clone”). On the other hand, the majority of the people know the definition of cloning as “a person or thing that appears to be an exact copy of another person or thing” (“clone”). Presented with this definition many people view cloning to be a bad idea, but at the same time it can be argued as a good idea. The topic about cloning can be debated in either

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    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a second you? The process of cloning is something that is not necessarily very new but is something that is constantly being researched and improved. Most commonly in cloning the somatic cell nuclear transfer method is used.This is when you take a somatic cell(any cell other than the sex cells) from the person being cloned and a donor egg cell and extract the nucleus from the donor egg cell replacing it with the nucleus from the somatic cell. This

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    white face sheep .The united states animal cloning program has been in controversy for the past couple decades, bringing some concerns about multiple assets of this program. Animal cloning has been around since 1938 when Hans Spemann suggested that they conduct a “fantastic experiment” of taking the nucleus of an egg cell and replacing it with another nucleus to create an embryo. This kick-started a multi million dollar program which successfully cloned multiple animals from frogs to fruit flies, and

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    Pros and Cons of Cloning Animals and Humans Cloning as a science is not new, researchers have been experimenting with this process, since the 1800’s. But what exactly is cloning? In her article, “Animal Clones”, Emily Sohn states “All animals, including people, have a set of structure in each cell called chromosomes. Chromosomes contain genes. Genes are made of molecules known as DNA. DNA hold all the information necessary to keep cells and the body working” (2004.) Essentially, cloning is scientific

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    Ethics Of Animal Cloning

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    Human beings have a responsibility to act morally just, not causing any being unnecessary pain and suffering. Which is exactly what animal cloning has been causing these animals. To better understand how these animals are suffering, one needs to have a better understanding on how the natural reproduction process works. Genes from both hosts are transferred in random order to the new cell. Each specific allele or trait has

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    Cloning Your dog dies, and your mom offers to get you a new one, but you don't want a new dog, you don't want a new dog like your old dog, you want your old dog. Cloning isn't the right answer, it's expensive, the clones are different from the original, and cloning doesn't always go the way scientists want it to. Cloning is extremely expensive. It costs "$15,000 for dog cloning services" to "as little as $30,000," but "50,000 and up seems to be more common"(Davis). For some it can

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    Did you know that animals are used for testing purposes, such as cloning? Animals are undergoing cloning methods for scientific purposes and are even being brought back to life in the form of a clone in order to please grieving pet lovers. Cloning animals is very unethical and it is a highly controversial topic. Cloning allows for the suffering of animals and it does not create an exact replica of an animal; therefore, it is unethical. In simple terms, cloning an animal is using science to create

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    clone and artificially grow animals by extracting DNA or fertilising an egg with the animal’s sperm, growing it in a laboratory. As well as there were many unsuccessful attempts, there has also been successful results but not quite successful. Rather than cloning common animals, it is thought to be more necessary to clone extinct species using the DNA extracted from ancient fossils and specimens. This is mainly an imperfect process. Although in some cases cloning animals will prove to be of great value

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    Animal cloning has recently become a major form of assisted animal reproduction. Cloning is used on farms to reproduce the healthiest animals in an effort to increase production of healthy foods. In 1986, Steen Malte Willadsen was the first to publish details about the first mammal born through nuclear transfer cloning. Scientists support this because they believe that the use of cloning is evolutionary and is leaving a positive impact on the world. Although discoveries are still being made with

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    Have you ever imagined having a cloned animal as your pet? I can’t even think about having a living thing that seems real, but is really synthetic! Although, it is quite amazing that people can do this, animals were meant to be a certain way people imagine them. This can become a serious issue for our society, so we need to find a way to be able to have technology keep advancing, but maybe leave cloning behind. Animal cloning can affect our world in many ways including: the reasoning on why it is

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