Cloning Dolly the Sheep
Table of Contents
The Cloning of Dolly the Sheep 3
The Human Cloning 4
Nature4
Studies4
Process 5
Arguments6
Official Catholic Church Teaching7 Church says “No” to Human Cloning7 What Does the Bible say about Cloning?8
Conclusion9
Response to the teaching of the Catholic Church9
Moral Judgment9
Reflection11
Reference12
The Cloning of Dolly the Sheep
Focusing on the Case
A major scientific achievement was done at the Roslin Institute because the cloning of a sheep was successful. The sheep was named Dolly. Dolly, lived a pampered existence at the Roslin Institute. She mated and produced normal offspring in the normal way, showing that such cloned animals can reproduce. Born on 5 July 1996, she was euthanized on 14 February 2003, aged six and a half. Sheep can live to age 11 or 12, but Dolly suffered from arthritis in a hind leg joint. There are many processes that have been through before Dolly was created. Animal cloning from an adult cell is obviously much more complex and difficult than growing a plant from a cutting. So when scientists working at the Roslin Institute in Scotland produced Dolly, the only lamb born from 277 attempts, it was a major news story around the world to produce Dolly, the scientists used the nucleus of an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep.
The nucleus contains nearly all the cell's genes. They had to find a way to 'reprogram' the udder cells - to keep them alive but stop them growing – which they achieved by altering the growth medium (the ‘soup’ in which the cells were kept alive). Then they injected the cell into an unfertilized egg cell which had had its nucleus removed, and made the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. The unfertilized egg cell came from a Scottish Blackface ewe. When the research team had managed to fuse the nucleus from the adult white sheep cell with the egg cell from the black-faced sheep, they needed to make sure that the resulting cell would develop into an embryo. They cultured
The Cloning of Dolly the Sheep 3
The Human Cloning 4
Nature4
Studies4
Process 5
Arguments6
Official Catholic Church Teaching7 Church says “No” to Human Cloning7 What Does the Bible say about Cloning?8
Conclusion9
Response to the teaching of the Catholic Church9
Moral Judgment9
Reflection11
Reference12
The Cloning of Dolly the Sheep
Focusing on the Case
A major scientific achievement was done at the Roslin Institute because the cloning of a sheep was successful. The sheep was named Dolly. Dolly, lived a pampered existence at the Roslin Institute. She mated and produced normal offspring in the normal way, showing that such cloned animals can reproduce. Born on 5 July 1996, she was euthanized on 14 February 2003, aged six and a half. Sheep can live to age 11 or 12, but Dolly suffered from arthritis in a hind leg joint. There are many processes that have been through before Dolly was created. Animal cloning from an adult cell is obviously much more complex and difficult than growing a plant from a cutting. So when scientists working at the Roslin Institute in Scotland produced Dolly, the only lamb born from 277 attempts, it was a major news story around the world to produce Dolly, the scientists used the nucleus of an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep.
The nucleus contains nearly all the cell's genes. They had to find a way to 'reprogram' the udder cells - to keep them alive but stop them growing – which they achieved by altering the growth medium (the ‘soup’ in which the cells were kept alive). Then they injected the cell into an unfertilized egg cell which had had its nucleus removed, and made the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. The unfertilized egg cell came from a Scottish Blackface ewe. When the research team had managed to fuse the nucleus from the adult white sheep cell with the egg cell from the black-faced sheep, they needed to make sure that the resulting cell would develop into an embryo. They cultured
References: * Gerdes, Louise. Cloning. Thomas Gale, 2006 * Leone, Bruno