Cons and Pros of Cloning

When most people think of cloning, they think of a scientist that uses DNA to make an exact replica of someone . Cloning is a lot more complicated and more controversial than that . According to the American Heritage Dictionary Cloning is defined as “A group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a common ancestor , such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell . Ever since August,1,2001 Cloning had been banned .Cloning was banned for many different reasons, such as: any person can obtain extreme power, cloning defects and mutations for example a headless baby that was cloned, Ethical and religious reasons why cloning should be banned .Florida state representative Dave Weldon agrees to the cloning ban . “I don’t think there’s any way that you can prevent the creation of human clones without stopping it from the beginning .” (The Florida representative tells CNN) Cloning was banned because it can have either horrible or helpful results on our world . Cloning is equally bad or good . Cloning can help cure diseases, help with surgeries both plastic and medical .Cloning can cause severe defections ,and is wrong for a religious person because it is a way of playing God . Human Cloning can be both Destructive and Beneficent to the Human Race .

Cloning is to create an exact copy of an organism using Genetics . The first mammal that

was successfully cloned was a sheep named Dolly . Dolly was made by replacing the genes of a normal sheep egg with DNA took from an unknown sheep’s mammary gland that have been dead for years, putting the egg in the uterus of foster mother for full gestation .It took 277 attempts to clone Dolly . Dolly was born with a genetic abnormality . She had lung disease even before she was born .Dolly then died at the age of six , which is half the normal life expectancy for a sheep .

There are several different types of cloning . There is