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A clone is a genetic replica of organisms formed from a single mutual predecessor. The first cloning was in 1964 done by John Gurdon, an English biologist. He acquired from the nuclei from the abdominal cells of toad tadpoles and infused them into unfertilized enucleated eggs. An enucleated egg is one from which the nucleus has been detached or demolished. John Gurdon found that when the eggs were incubated, some of them grew into fertile, fully-grown toads. Cloning can also be used on plants. Cloning should be allowed due to the benefits in medicine, agriculture, and the ability to help endangered animals.
First of all, cloning should be allowed to continue due to the many benefits in medicine. In medical care, scientists are starting to use gene cloning to create vaccines and hormones. To help children, hormone insulin for treating diabetes and growth hormones has been produced. The immune system has many antibodies and the scientists clone specific ones that help fight off disease or infection (“Clone and Cloning”). Gene therapy modifies the expression of a person’s genes toward a therapeutic goal as a way to treat diseases (Sampsell). The potential of cloning to alleviate suffering is substantial. It could be used to grow a patient’s own cells and tissues to carry out repairs (Wagner 99). Another way cloning can help in medicine is by helping infertile patients. Two fertility doctors have been planning to use human cloning to help infertile people using reproductive cloning. Cloning can also be used if the male in a pair does not have viable sperm, the father can still have a genetic relation with the child (Siedler 70). Reproductive cloning, or somatic nuclear transfer, which is the cloning of humans, can clone sperm or eggs...

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...s rate of the process. Although the cloning of plants and animals may cause it to be susceptible to diseases more, cloning can select stronger disease resisting traits that help the crops and animals survive. Choosing stronger genes can help the environment become stronger and more prosperous (Sampsell).
Cloning is becoming more widespread as more scientists are becoming interested in the topic. Some people are against the cloning and some people are supporting it. The research for cloning should be allowed to continue due to the benefits in medicine, such as helping cure diseases, benefits in agriculture, such as choosing certain preferable traits, and the benefits in helping bring back endangered or even extinct animals. Researching cloning will have many advantageous effects on future projects. It holds a great potential for the coming years and for the earth.

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