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    Cloning your pet, or any other animal, may seem like a thing of the future. Until now, scientists have developed a way to clone animals including your deceased pet. Cloning is a tricky task to perform. In most cases only one out of every 277 cloned embryos is successfully born. On top of that it is also a very expensive procedure costing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to execute. Even though, it is an amazing scientific feat. Cloning an animal is full of controversy. However, it is an amazing

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    Animal Cloning is a process where the whole organism reproduced from cells taken from parent organisms to produce offspring that is genetically identical. This means that animal cloning is an exact duplicate of the parent, which means that also have the same DNA. When Dolly, the first cloned sheep entered in the news, the cloning controversy is becoming more prominent. Not only researchers, the general public became interested in knowing how cloning is done as well as engage in the pros and cons

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    Human Cloning The controversy of human cloning has contemplated the reasons it should or shouldn't be allowed. Human cloning is the reproduction of human cells and tissue by creating a genetical copy artificially. Clones contain original characteristics of the individual or cell. There are many dangerous risks and great benefits to human cloning. Many people have an extraordinary reaction to cloning because it creates all sorts of images. Cloning is a medical breakthrough that can help millions

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    Human Cloning Controversy

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    human cloning. Human cloning can be done but not actually performed yet, as in a human clone being born. At first it started with animals, but then it moved to human embryos. Scientists figured out a way to make it possible to clone a human being. Scientists do this through stem cells as well as harvesting women’s eggs. Scientist grow these embryos in petri dishes and once they are done experimenting, scientist destroy these embryos that could be human beings. This is where a big controversy begins

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    Therapeutic Cloning and its Controversy The idea of finding a way to cure people of diseases with their own cells is one that scientists, physicians, and those who are afflicted by such diseases find very enticing. Therapeutic cloning is a process that scientists believe has the potential to achieve such goals in the future. While therapeutic cloning brings with it a variety of potential benefits and innovations, it also carries with it a polarizing ethical conflict that poses a strong impediment

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    Introduction In this present day and age, cloning has gained much controversy in relation to its development and scientific use. Applying this contentious process to extinct organisms – known as ‘de-extinction’ - fuels further debate. Through various experiments – the first instance of cloning, Dolly the sheep in 1997, scientists have observed that this could serve as a gateway for further scientific discoveries. Also, it has been hypothesised that an ecosystem could highly benefit from the revival

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    The Cloning Controversy A mad scientist stands in one part of a double-chambered machine, leaving the other empty. As he presses a button, gears begin to whir and smoke. A bright light flashes, and out of the empty chamber steps a perfect replica of the scientist, complete with clothes and command of the English language. This sci-fi plot line may be familiar, but it has nothing to do with the actual, controversial cloning process, one that may be used by today’s scientists to create cloned

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    Human Cloning Controversy

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    ongoing controversy regarding the issue of human cloning in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia which have made attempts or have done research in reproductive cloning. Countries like Australia have prohibited human cloning in 2006. (NHMRC, 2007) Advocates who involve congress members, editorial writers, fertility specialists...and so on gave benefits of human cloning, yet not enough to justify the moral and ethical issues underlying the controversy. Human cloning refers

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    Cloning is a fairly new topic for many people. So many may ask; What is cloning? The term describes a process used to create copies of a biological organism, this copied organism is referred to as a clone. Cloning is a new pathway in scientific research, and because of this, many people decide that cloning is unethical before learning anything about it. Since cloning is a new topic of discussion it is a very objectionable to society. There are several medical plus sides to medical cloning, except

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    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. There are many controversies surrounding the cloning world; some of these being involved with religions, personal morals, fears, and misconceptions

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