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    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

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    breakthroughs has been the success of cloning. Ever since the creation of “Dolly” the sheep at Roslin Institute, there has been increased debates on whether scientists should bump up a notch and try to clone a human. Biotechnology and science evolves day by day. New inventions and discoveries play an important part in order for a breakthrough in science. Scientists are eager to study and dig deeper into the mysteries of life, to them experimenting with cloning is a major step in fully understanding

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    The act of exchanging lives can be a very dangerous thing. For example, shooting an armed intruder. The debate of saving a life but taking another in the process is complicated and quite interesting. People may not see the connection at first, but that argument is linked to the ethical issue of therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning is the copying of body parts or genetic material through an embryo for medical usage. It kills the unborn offspring in order to help a living human being, who is having

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    The Opposition to Human Cloning: How Morality and Ethics Factor in If a random individual were asked twenty years ago if he/she believed that science could clone an animal, most would have given a weird look and responded, “Are you kidding me?” However, that once crazy idea has now become a reality, and with this reality, has come debate after debate about the ethics and morality of cloning. Yet technology has not stopped with just the cloning of animals, but now many scientists are contemplating

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    Cloning is an often discussed topic among the masses. This could range anywhere from a children’s television show, to an intense debate between two influential figures of the science world. As interesting of a prospect that cloning is however, the ethics behind such a scientific process would result in many negatives in this world. Some examples of why the cloning process should be abandoned are as follows: the cost to research and produce these clones is astronomical, and could be used for more

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    Cloning is an individual grown from a single somatic cell or cell nucleus and genetically identical to it. Cloning should not be permitted or continued to be studied here in the United States or even in other nations, because aging faster, interference with nature and religious ethics, reduces individuality, failed attempts, and degrading organs. First, cloning should not be permitted since it risks the possibility of faster aging. The cells used for cloning are being obtained from older cells like

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    Analyzing the Ethics of Reproductive Cloning   “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” -Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776)   The notion of the existence of basic human rights which all men are entitled to, first advanced by the great philosopher John Locke, became an indelible part of

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    The concept of human cloning has constantly blended a debate, raising moral and ethical issues. There are many aspects involving human cloning that would be brought upon us which would affect us negatively, and would be considered morally wrong. Religious Standpoints, the development of the populace, and every human's distinction are a couple of the supporting reasons that remain against cloning and bolster why it ought not be legalized. The revelation of cloning has turned into and issue of science

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    The Reality of Cloning Essay

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    ban human-embryo cloning. The

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    development. Cloning is a form of biotechnology. The process of producing an organism that is genetically identical is called cloning. Cloning is an asexual reproduction process. Cloning in biotechnology is manually cloning an organism or molecular cloning of DNA fragments. There are three types of cloning in biotechnology; reproductive cloning which are used to produce an exact copy of an existing organism, DNA cloning which are used to produce copies of DNA fragments, and Therapeutic cloning, which is

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