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Will cloning take over the world?

Have you ever wanted to be in two places at once but cant? The first thing that would

pop into your head is cloning but unfortunately thats not how cloning works. Cloning is the

process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that are living or

making and copying an organism. No full-grown clone can be created. Cloning wasnt just

created by a scientist during an experiment. It happens in nature when an embryo divides into

two individuals with identical DNA, it creates identical twins. Cloning can also happen through

asexual reproduction like what bacteria and other

organisms do to produce their offspring. Scientist that

study cloning have been trying to create clones for over

100s of years. The process of cloning can also be known

as research cloning. The goal for researchers is not to

create cloned human beings but rather to store and gather

stem cells that can be used to study human development

or potentially treat any disease possible. Humans and animals can be cloned. 1800s was when

cloning all began. By 1984 marked the first mammal being cloned from early embryonic cells. In

1996, Dolly, the sheep, was cloned from a somatic cell. Reproductive Cloning is done through a

somatic cell, such as a skin cell. Scientist transfer the DNA of the mature somatic cell into an egg

cell, that has had its own DNA-containing nucleus removed. Not only was cloning invented for

human stem cell purposes but also for medicine, reviving endangered species, reproducing

deceased pets, and more.

The history of cloning started in the 1800s and will continue in the future until all

research and experiments are needed. Hans Driesch was the first to demonstrate cloning animals
by spitting embryos from a sea urchin. A similar experiment happened many years later by

Robert Briggs and Thomas Joseph King cloned a frog embryo by transferring a cell nucleus into

a unfertilized egg cell. So far, researchers have found two common ways to clone, therapeutic

and reproductive. Over the years, the slow process in cloning research has increased by a lot.

Cloning specialists have been researching many cloning techniques including artificial twinning,

the Roslin technique, and the Honolulu technique. Researchers say these techniques can be used

to find even more information on cloning by experimenting in the laboratory. When Dolly, the

sheep, was cloned there was a lot of research that was collected. It took 277 attempts to clone

Dolly and lead to the most major news around the entire world. After 20 years of cloning Dolly,

the cloning fever never cooled down. Cloning has headed into more impacting experiments but

also led to banning cloning. Dolly had to be put down at the age of 6 because of lung disease.

Concerns came up that clones could not live as long as its originals in behalf of underlying

genetic abnormalities. Afterwards twenty countries banned human cloning. This led to a hiccup

in the research due to medical and ethical challenges and dystopian fears. Cloning is becoming

more common in the biology field, but will more research lead

into a cloning catastrophe? Believe it or not misusing cloning by

malevolent people is the main risk we have about cloning. Many

people believe that cloning interferes with Gods role as creator

and others fear cloning will ruin the natural course of evolution.

In the future, cloning will reach a fork in the road.

Cloning could either end up bringing back extinct animals, create immortality, or cause the world

to drown of cloned organisms that could rule over their originals. Cloning has way more pros

than cons. Both therapeutic and reproductive cloning has its own pros and cons list. Therapeutic
pros includes helping to create vital organs, helpful for preventing diseases, and organs can have

an exact match of patients DNA.The cons are some cells cause tumors in patients, curing

diseases requires millions of diseases, and therapeutic cloning costs are so expensive.

Therapeutic cloning is most helpful for creating organs and eliminates the need for organ donors.

Now onto the reproductive cloning pros, this type of cloning is used to create offspring when

parents are having complications. Reproductive cloning can help parents with no eggs or sperm,

a safe natural reproduction, and animals can create offspring when endangered. The cons are

more ethical. Reproductive cloning will diminish the uniqueness, considered against Gods

wishes, and cloned children be raised in the shadow of their genetic donor. Cloning can be

beneficial to everyone. An obvious benefit of cloning is that it creates another copy of an

organism and how the copy can be an organ, a child, or anything that has a cell you can copy.

Risks of having a cloned child is that in most cases scientist have proven unsuccessful and

creates miscarriages. Cloned children also most likely have a risk of having birth defects.It is

very rare to have a normal clone child.

Personally, I think cloning is good news. The way people use cloning can affect whether

good can turn into bad. For instance, using egg sperm cells to inseminate females who cant have

children is a positive way to use cloning. If we keep researching cloning, maybe child failures

will turn into successes with no defects or diseases. The more money and time used on the

research of cloning will increase the change of positive cloning. More cloning comes with less

deaths. I feel confident about cloning and where the research is headed. Cloning will benefit

many people all over the world, but mostly people with medical needs. Without cloning for

couples that cant have children, there would be no hope for kids which is very tragic. Also it

benefits the people in need of organ transplants. The wait for organs decreases by a lot and if you
are the bottom of the wait list for an organ you can get the organ you need at anytime. The only

concerning problems are creating new illnesses. Cloning is creating entirely new forms of genes,

you run the risks of creating a super new disease unheard of. The results could be devastating. I

agree with all the research that scientist have gotten so far. It is important to pay attention to

detail for the study of cloning, anything that happens can lead to something huge.

It is terrifying to know that cloning can be achieved in the future in so little time. We

know that cloning is the creation of genetically identical copy of an organism. We also know

what research was done, the pros and cons, and the benefits and risks. However, nobody really

knows how cloning came about. Scientist are still hiding bits of information that the public

cannot know. I think its better this way, for humans not to know the bad things about cloning

and where that is headed. Focusing on the good parts about cloning will get cloning to be legal in

all countries in every continent. Every big experiment in cloning was a big deal, imagine news

coming out that someone was cloned someone and created the same age organism. That would

be a good time to freak out but in present time stay cautious. All I can say is cloning might take

over the world.

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