Stem Cells and Cloning
David Stem Cell paper T-T 11:20
Stem Cells and Cloning
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Cloning is one of the most widely talked about topics in this world. The people that defend cloning believe that cloning and genetic engineering will be the answer to most of the diseases in the future. On the other hand, the people against it think of it as ‘ playing God ’. Cloning is unethical because people will lose their identities if their clones come into this world. We are taking nature into our own hands by cloning animals or humans. Cloning is the process of creating a cell, tissue line or even a complete organism from a single cell. The concept of cloning was introduced in 1903, and plants were the first organisms to be cloned. Other examples of clones are trees sending up runners, worms dividing into smaller worms, populations of genetically identical bacteria and cells dividing into tissue. Human cloning is a prospect no longer left to the fantastic realm of science fiction novels; rather it is a modern possibility. In 1997, embryologists in Scotland cloned the first sheep. Shortly thereafter, scientists in the United States cloned a set of monkeys.
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There are many advantages and disadvantages of cloning and a lot of ethical issues related to it. The entire realm of biotechnology is fraught with dangers and problems that require careful study and democratic debate of key ethical issues. In an era where everything depends on technology and where life can be created and redesigned in a Petri dish and genetic codes can be edited like a digital text, the distinction between ‘ natural ’ and ‘ artificial ’ have become very complex. The defenders of it think its potential to increase food production and quality and to cure diseases and prolong human life is great. Its critics, on the other hand, claim that genetic engineering of food would produce “ Frankenfoods ” (Best and Kellner 440) that would pollute
Stem Cells and Cloning
1.
Cloning is one of the most widely talked about topics in this world. The people that defend cloning believe that cloning and genetic engineering will be the answer to most of the diseases in the future. On the other hand, the people against it think of it as ‘ playing God ’. Cloning is unethical because people will lose their identities if their clones come into this world. We are taking nature into our own hands by cloning animals or humans. Cloning is the process of creating a cell, tissue line or even a complete organism from a single cell. The concept of cloning was introduced in 1903, and plants were the first organisms to be cloned. Other examples of clones are trees sending up runners, worms dividing into smaller worms, populations of genetically identical bacteria and cells dividing into tissue. Human cloning is a prospect no longer left to the fantastic realm of science fiction novels; rather it is a modern possibility. In 1997, embryologists in Scotland cloned the first sheep. Shortly thereafter, scientists in the United States cloned a set of monkeys.
2.
There are many advantages and disadvantages of cloning and a lot of ethical issues related to it. The entire realm of biotechnology is fraught with dangers and problems that require careful study and democratic debate of key ethical issues. In an era where everything depends on technology and where life can be created and redesigned in a Petri dish and genetic codes can be edited like a digital text, the distinction between ‘ natural ’ and ‘ artificial ’ have become very complex. The defenders of it think its potential to increase food production and quality and to cure diseases and prolong human life is great. Its critics, on the other hand, claim that genetic engineering of food would produce “ Frankenfoods ” (Best and Kellner 440) that would pollute