You Have No Reason for Cloning Humans Think of walking down the street in thirty years and running into an exact replica of yourself. Is it your twin? No‚ you do not have a twin; it is your clone. Your biological makeup could have been cloned as an embryo and raised separately as an experiment. I bet many of you have seen Star Wars‚ Jurassic Park or many of the other movies that describe cloning. Most of what you see in these movies is false. What you do not know is if that cloning could be
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The technical definition of cloning is to make a identical copy of but in biology it can be defined as the “process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria‚ insects or plants reproduce asexually.” Cloning has been making progress for just over one hundred and thirty years. In 1885‚ researcher by the name of Hans Adolf Edward Dreisch began the theory of cloning ny performing the first-ever demonstration of artificial
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* INTRODUCTION: The world of science and the public at large were both shocked and fascinated by the announcement in the journal Nature by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues that they had successfully cloned a sheep from a single cell of an adult sheep (Wilmut 1997). Scientists were in part surprised‚ because many had believed that after the very early stage of embryo development at which differentiation of cell function begins to take place‚ it would not be possible to achieve cloning of an adult mammal
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heralding the irreversible approach- if not the actual realization-of the synthesized‚ plasticized‚ carbon-copied Man"(Rorvik 26-27). Ian Wilmut‚ a genetic scientologist who cloned the first mammal in 1996 which was a sheep feels that human cloning is inhumane by saying‚ "As I will discuss‚ there are no proposed reasons for copying a person that I find ethically acceptable"(Wilmut 33). The positive outlook on human
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Technology. n.d. <www.biology.kenyon.edu>. Energy‚ US Department of. Human Genome Project Information. 11 May 2009. 15 03 2012 <www.ornl.gov/hgmis>. Julie C. Van Camp‚ Jeffrey Olen‚ and Vincent Barry. Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings. Ed. Ian Lague. Tenth Edition. Boston: Clark Baxter‚ 2011. Jurassic Park. By Michael Crichton. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum Sam Neil. 1993. Wise‚ Elizabeth. USA Today. 4 July 2006. 15 March 2012 <www.usatoday.com/tech/science/genetics>
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**INTRODUCTION** What is cloning? Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning)‚ cells (cell cloning)‚ or organisms. It describes the processes used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell‚ tissue or organism. The copied material‚ which has the same genetic makeup as the original‚ is referred to as a clone. When is cloning done? Cloning is done to amplify the DNA fragments containing the gene of interest and ensures pure
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“Dolly Helps the Infertile. World Wide Web. AOL 19 May 1999 [www.newscientist.com] “Human Cloning.” World Wide Web. AOL. 24 Apr 1999. [www.humancloning.org] Ethical Issues on Cloning Our Best People. By Dan Talaparlu Cloning for Medicine. By Ian Wilmut.
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The cloning of humans is now very close to reality‚ thanks to the historic scientific breakthrough of Dr. Ian Wilmut and his colleagues in the UK. This possibility is one of incredible potential benefit for all of us. Unfortunately the initial debate on this issue has been dominated by misleading‚ sensationalized accounts in the news media and negative emotional reactions derived from inaccurate science fiction. Much of the negativity about human cloning is based simply on the breathtaking novelty
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biotechnology------------------------------------------------- Before the Common Era[edit] * 7000 BCE – Chinese discover fermentation through beer making. * 6000 BCE – Yogurt and cheese made with lactic acid-producing bacteria by various cultures. * 4000 BCE – Egyptians bake leavened bread using yeast. [1] * 500 BCE – Moldy soybean curds used as an antibiotic. * 250 BCE – The Greeks practice crop rotation for maximum soil fertility. [2] * 100 BCE – Chinese use chrysanthemum as
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scientists created the first successful animal clone. They removed the nucleus from a frog egg and replaced it with DNA from a different frog’s cells. In 1996‚ the first adult mammal‚ Dolly the sheep‚ was cloned by Ian Wilmut (Hutchinson). Instead of taking DNA from an embryonic cell‚ Wilmut took the genetic information from an adult male sheep and injected it into a fertilized female egg through SCNT (Hutchinson). 2. Side 1: Extinct Animals Should not be Brought Back The
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