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    One medical topic that is considered controversial is cloning. Cloning is when scientists create an identical copy of an organism, DNA, or a cell. There are three types of cloning. The three types of cloning are DNA cloning, therapeutic cloning, and reproductive cloning. DNA cloning is when is when a scientist copies part of a strand of DNA or a gene within the DNA. This copied piece of DNA is transferred to another organism. Therapeutic cloning produces stem cells which are cells capable of shifting

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    society? Cloning is the process of making an exact copy of a plant or animal. Being able to clone organisms can benefit society and living organisms. Some people question cloning and have concerns over the ethics of it; they wonder if we would be playing God by making clones. Cloning should be legal because of the beneficial opportunities it could present regarding to health, animals, and agriculture. One of the reasons cloning should be legal is because of the health benefits of cloning. Cloning could

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    “uncertain” consequences like Cloning. It’s necessary that people should know the pros and cons of such scientific procedures before they support its continued use. (9) Cloning is the process of creating genetically identical copies of biological matter. Cloning can occur at the level of DNA, single cell, or whole organism. There are three different types of artificial cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. (7) The first type of cloning is gene cloning which focuses on making

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    Pros Of Cloning

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    There are animals, plants, and possibly humans that have all been cloned before. "Either they have been artificially or naturally cloned" (Stratfor). Scientists are still researching on how to artificially clone humans. The amount of technology in this world, anything is possible. "The first ever artificially cloned animal, was a sheep named dolly" (Stratfor). It took a lot of difficult work for the reproduction. Humans should be cloned for extra body parts. Those extra body parts could save lives

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    The Cloning Of The Sheep

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    Name: Lanster Yang Teacher: Mrs. DeGregorio Course: English III Date: 8 May 2015 Human Cloning Cloning of Dolly the Sheep was a first on many fronts. First, it represented the first mammal ever to be cloned from a somatic cell. It also sets a benchmark on which to evaluate other animal cloning experiments going forward. Secondly, her cloning was the start of controversy and panic in regards to animal cloning, as it raised the question of whether scientists would seek to clone humans too, and the

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    organism. Cloning means an organism is generated genetically identical from an existing organism through non-sexual means. Cloning simply means to make an identical duplication of genes, fragments of DNA molecules, organs, or cells. There are three different types of artificial cloning. They include gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic cloning. Gene cloning produces copies of gene segments of DNA. Reproductive cloning produces copies of whole animals. Therapeutic cloning is another

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    People have debated the issue of cloning for years. Many argue that it is not ethical, but it does have some positive uses. Cloning has become a huge controversial issue not just in the United States, but instead in the whole world in the past few years. Scientists are exploring and experimenting the pros and cons of human cloning. Will cloning stop or expand in the future? If it is going to expand, what is the main cause of it? Those are some of the main questions scientists ask themselves based

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    The idea of cloning used to be considered science fiction, that was until dolly was made. In the late 90’s Scottish scientist, Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell along with colleagues from the Roslin Institute accomplished the first cloning in history -Cloning is basically creating a copy of something, but in genetic cloning means creating an identical copy of existing DNA (of an organism)-. The final object was named Dolly, born on July 5, 1996 she was the first clone to be produced from a mammal cell

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    Fiction has become an incredibly popular genre, but could you imagine something thought to be science fiction is actually science fact? Movies like Multiplication, Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones, and, Splice all have one thing in common, Cloning! This controversial topic was once thought to be imaginary, but has recently been pefected and many mixed opinions are developing because of it. Scholastic Scope magazine even came out with an article called “Should You Clone Your Pet?”. The way

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    where armies are just clones. Cloning should not be allowed to happen as people will not have anything unique about themselves, and it doesn’t only apply to people, it also applies to animals. People want to clone animals to have their beloved pets back, but they don't realize that the animals will only look the same physically, not mentally, and by that I mean that those pets will not have the memories of the original pet, which also applies to humans. And while cloning can bring benefits through research

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