Cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical organisms. Any living thing can be cloned including humans, animals, and plants. This is done by scientist in laboratories who obtain DNA from a species. The obtained DNA is then used to asexually create a new life form. The first cloning of an animal was done in the 1880s by German biologist Hans Driesch, who cloned a sea urchin from an embryo cell. It wasn’t until the cloning of the sheep Dolly, who was cloned by Ian Wilmut in 1996, did cloning become well known. There is much controversy about whether or not cloning should be allowed in society. While most of the general public feels that cloning is the way to go, there is an ever growing resentment towards moral and ethical purposes of cloning, ranging from the practicality all the way to scientific issues. Basically, people for cloning believe that medical advancements can benefit humanity’s survival, while staunch opponents trust that altering with nature destroys the natural balance of life.
In defense of cloning, many benefits are to be found. First and foremost, cloning can bring many medical advancements, such as cloning lost body parts or organs for surgical implants, prolonging life and health. Cloned parts have a better chance to be accepted into the host since they have the same DNA and blood type, leading to less surgical mishaps. In fact, cloning is already a big part of life today, such as GMO’s, or genetically modified crops. These are cloned seeds where they take the best and most productive foods and clone them for mass distribution. These genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) have desired traits such as height, flower color, quality, increased harvests, leading to healthier die...
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In the end it will be best to stay clear of cloning due to all the bickering of the religious groups, and other groups that are against cloning. Cloning still has not ventured far enough into all the possibilities considering much of human cloning is just speculation. With the advantages of cloning such as copying plants with the perfect genes for more better food, and also the creation of something new such as the banana. With all the advantages and disadvantages of cloning many will lay in ambivalence.
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"(261)". We can not undo what has been discovered and we must ensure that all countries involved with cloning form a committee to monitor the uses of this technology to ensure that it is used in the best interest of mankind. Works Cited Bishop, Michael J. - "The 'Bishop'" The "Enemies of Promise" The Presence of Others. C Comp. Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruskiewicz.
Farrell, Courtney. "Cloning: An Overview. By: Farrell, Courtney, Carson-Dewitt, Rosalyn, Points of View: Cloning, 2013." Ebscohost.com. Mackinvia.com, 2013. Web. 21
When the idea of cloning first started it was thought to be a fictitious idea. The idea that cloning could one day become reality was thought to be a scientific impossibility by many experts. However we have now seen that what was thought to be "purely fiction" became reality.
Long after Shelley wrote her classic masterpiece Frankenstein and Huxley wrote Brave New World, the ethical controversy of cloning conflicts with modern artificial intelligence research. The question that challenges the idea of negative or positive behavior in a replicated machine relies on its similarity to the source of the clone, whether it emulates human behavior or acts as a “superintelligence” with supernatural characteristics void of human error. Humanity will not know the absolute answers concerning behavioral outcome without creating a physical being, an idea portrayed in Shelley’s Frankenstein in which the creation of a monster emulates from his creator’s attempts to generate life. At the time of the novel’s publication, the idea of replicating a soul portrayed a nightmarish theme with little consideration for the potential scientific advancements to facilitate in reality. It lead the genetic idea of manmade intelligence and its ethics emerging from the relativity of space, time, and original life on the planet. The debate of the existing possibility of sentient machines continues to progress, but the consideration of ethical questions such as “Should we create these artificial people?” and “How does this enactment define the soul and mind?” warranted from primitive questions about machine learning within the last century. After the initial proof of possibility for sentient machines, the perfection of cloning will generate “good” behavior at its perfect state several generations from now. The perfect machine portrays the potential for sensible human behaviors including compassion, mentality, empathy, alertness, and love. Humanity of the twenty-first century possesses the knowledge to fantasize the idea of artificial ...
Cloning has been a controversial topic since the time it was introduced, prompting questions of ethics. Although it has been unintentionally in use for thousands of years, it was first brought about in the 1960’s. As more and more discoveries have been gained since then, numerous uncertainties continue to be raised among scientists, politicians, and anyone interested in the issue. While the idea of cloning is intriguing and polarizing, there is a fine like that defines what is and isn’t ethical; it is moral to clone cells for research development and plants for agricultural desires, but it is in no way acceptable to clone humans and animals for reproductive reasons.
Automatically when people talk about human cloning that tend to be negative. Most reaction is people shouldn't play god or interfere with nature. Of course there are negative consequences that could come from cloning. On the other hand there is so many positive things that could save more lives than it would cost. Yes Cloning involves risky techniques that could result in premature babies and some deaths. That is why public policy needs to be changed on cloning. The medical possibilities are endless if federal money is given to research and develop cloning techniques.
Herbert, Wray. The World After Cloning. U.S. News and World Report. March 10, 1997: 59-64.
Most people argue that human cloning is not morally and ethically acceptable due to both religious concerns and long-term health problems. The notion of cloning organisms has always been troublesome because of unpredictable consequences. “Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture” (C...
In recent years our world has undergone many changes and advancements, cloning is a primary example of this new modernism. On July 5th, 1995, Dolly, the first cloned animal, was created. She was cloned from a six-year-old sheep, making her cells genetically six years old at her creation. However, scientists were amazed to see Dolly live for another six years, until she died early 2005 from a common lung disease found in sheep. This discovery sparked a curiosity for cloning all over the world, however, mankind must answer a question, should cloning be allowed? To answer this question some issues need to be explored. Is cloning morally correct, is it a reliable way to produce life, and should human experimentation be allowed?
The history of cloning dates back to 1835 with the first demonstration of artificial embryo cloning on a Sea Urchin (University of Utah Health Sciences). Today, there are two types of cloning: therapeutic and reproductive. Therapeutic cloning is defined as “the use of cloning technology for the reproduction of cells and the potential creation of semi-sentient beings purely for the purpose of harvesting body parts for transplantation” (The Dalai Lama 135). On the other hand, reproductive cloning is used solely to create an identical copy of someone or something. There could be many reasons that individuals choose to use reproductive cloning. For example, a couple who desperately want to have children but unfortunately cannot. Or in a more extreme case, as The Dalai Lama states “There could also be individuals who, out of desire to live beyond biological possibility may choose to clone themselves in the belief that they will continue to live in the new cloned being” (136). However, such individuals are not thinking about the effects that cloning could have on the world and future
Secondly, “the most the human race has to loose by playing around with cloning is that the genetic diversity would be lost (Andrea Castro, 2005).” Reducing the genetic differences will produce clones that are grossly overlarge, many animals will be born with genetic mutations, and there will be a higher “risk of disease transfer (Saskaschools, 2003). “A review of all the world's cloned animals suggests that every one of them is genetically and physically defective (Leake, 2002).” Mutations will be passed on to the younger generation because if a cloned species has a mutation in their DNA this mutation will be passed on. Cloning has been linked with diseases of ageing, arthritis and, cancer.
Cloning is a process by which genetically equal organisms are created with the same DNA. In simplest terms, clones are like twins born at different times. This procedure poses various dangers to society and humankind. One of the greatest threats this procedure creates is among
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