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