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Mostly everyone in the world today has heard of the very controversial topic of cloning. By definition, cloning is the scientific procedure that copies the DNA of organisms in order to create organisms that have the exact same genetic information (University of Utah “What is Cloning”). In the world around, us copies of organs, animals, and other organisms are being cloned, for better or for worse. Like many procedures, it is highly controversial and has both good and bad intentions. In today’s society, there are several different views of cloning, both of negative side effects and of positive side effects. Cloning can offer a new beneficial way to help improve lifespan by replicating an organism or organ, however cloning should not be used in the world today due to the abundance of harmful consequences of the procedure.

Cloning all started in the early 1900s when Hans Spemann experimented with nuclear transfer (Harvard). This provided the world with the first steps into cloning. From then on, cloning has been an up and coming popular, however highly controversial topic. The first major cloning project that opened up the idea of cloning to the world was in 1997 when an animal was cloned. The first artificial cloning of an animal was on a sheep named Dolly when two scientists Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell used embryonic cloning to produce the sheep (Harvard). This was a major step forward in the history of cloning because people now became aware of the cloning of

Nelson 2 animals and realized that it is possible to create a genetically identical copy of an animal (Harvard). This milestone gives off the idea that it might be possible to clone actual humans in the near future. The procedure of cloning is split up into different f...

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