Cloning on Humans
Cloning on Humans Over my years here at college, I have learned a lot about humans and how our bodies function. One of the classes that really stuck out to me and caught my interest was genetics.
I enjoyed learning about our DNA and how it worked in terms of reproduction. A topic that we covered during the course of this class was on cloning. I learned about the different types of cloning and when the focus on our in class discussions was on reproductive and therapeutic cloning, I became really interested in this subject. Artificial cloning in general is a fairly new topic in the world of science and I first remember hearing about cloning in 1997 when Dolly the sheep was born. Now that I understand more about DNA and how the cloning process works, I’m interested in the future of cloning and where the research is going to take us. I only have a little bit of background knowledge about where cloning stands today and know that there has been many breakthroughs and benefits from it but in the back of my mind I’m concerned with how far scientists will take it and if there will be humans involved. As research goes further and more is learned about reproductive cloning, one question I wonder about is; should reproductive and therapeutic cloning be continued and one day be allowed to be used with humans? I began my research on cloning with an article I found on using livestock and reproductive cloning to gain a more genetically superior and desirable animal. In the article titled “Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for Livestock Development” the authors Chakravarthi and Balaji use reproductive cloning, which is the process on an entire organism being created from a single cell of a parent organism and having the exact same DNA, as a way to create a more enhanced population of livestock in a shorter period of time. When animals are reproduced in this way, desirable traits, like milk production and meat yield, can be selected over other
I enjoyed learning about our DNA and how it worked in terms of reproduction. A topic that we covered during the course of this class was on cloning. I learned about the different types of cloning and when the focus on our in class discussions was on reproductive and therapeutic cloning, I became really interested in this subject. Artificial cloning in general is a fairly new topic in the world of science and I first remember hearing about cloning in 1997 when Dolly the sheep was born. Now that I understand more about DNA and how the cloning process works, I’m interested in the future of cloning and where the research is going to take us. I only have a little bit of background knowledge about where cloning stands today and know that there has been many breakthroughs and benefits from it but in the back of my mind I’m concerned with how far scientists will take it and if there will be humans involved. As research goes further and more is learned about reproductive cloning, one question I wonder about is; should reproductive and therapeutic cloning be continued and one day be allowed to be used with humans? I began my research on cloning with an article I found on using livestock and reproductive cloning to gain a more genetically superior and desirable animal. In the article titled “Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for Livestock Development” the authors Chakravarthi and Balaji use reproductive cloning, which is the process on an entire organism being created from a single cell of a parent organism and having the exact same DNA, as a way to create a more enhanced population of livestock in a shorter period of time. When animals are reproduced in this way, desirable traits, like milk production and meat yield, can be selected over other