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    JESSA M. CASTILLO TTH 9:00 – 10:30 AM PHIS004 – N4 Human Cloning I can remember when I was still a 7-year-old-girl. I imagined of having a twin sister with identical features I have. I’d been thinking it would be fun because I would have someone I can could play with aside from my siblings and saw myself on my twin as my alter ego. Then I realized that it won’t be possible. Nowadays‚ with our modern technologies‚ the impossible turn possible; a pen with video camera‚ a rechargeable car

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    Thomas Edison failed. He did not make the light bulb on his first try. Or his second. Or his third. The way people live their lives is based on mistakes. This is the claim made by Lewis Thomas. Thomas is correct- people base their lives on mistakes. Humans‚ young or old‚ hate being wrong. It drives people crazy to be incorrect. Without this way of thinking‚ there would be no improvements in the world. People learn by trial and error. Life is one big trial and error situation. Mistakes are not as

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    Introduction Cloning involves the process of nuclear transplantation. During this process‚ the nucleus of a fertilized organism’s egg is replaced by a nucleus of an organism’s cell. If the procedure is successful‚ the fertilized egg will grow into an identical copy of that organism. In human cloning‚ the process is more complicated due to the complex nature of human DNA. Body Most people agree that human cloning isn’t morally and ethically acceptable due to religious issues and health concerns. The

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    choices are a part of human life and can influence our lives for the better or for the worse‚ but they are necessary for learning. If you had not touched a hot stove as a child‚ how would you know not to do it again? If you have never been wrong‚ how can you know when you are right? If you do not make mistakes‚ how will you learn? In The Medusa and the Snail‚ the author and biologist‚ Lewis Thomas‚ makes several valuable points as to why mistakes are an important part of the human learning process.

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    risky right now. A particular worry is the possibility that the genetic material used from the adult will continue to age so that the genes in a newborn baby clone could be - say - 30 years old or more on the day of birth. Many attempts at animal cloning produced disfigured monsters with severe abnormalities. So that would mean creating cloned embryos‚ implanting them and destroying (presumably) those that look imperfect as they grow in the womb. However some abnormalities may not appear till after

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    “The hope is in the… tendency toward error.” Trial and error defines the pinnacle of human nature. As shown in Lewis Thomas’ writing and throughout history‚ progress can only occur with mistakes. Parents strive to teach their children about possible future mistakes in a lame attempt of protecting the child from having to experience the mistakes himself‚ but truthfully‚ experience presents the best lessons. You can warn a child to not touch a hot stove and he may listen at first. However‚ his

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    DISCUSSION ESSAY Human cloning: right or wrong? Since the arrival of the scientific temper in humankind around the 17th century‚ specially with the creation of the Royal Society‚ human beings began to discover things that once were thought impossible‚ and nowadays improvements in technology and science have allowed wonders like cloning. The concept of cloning may be defined as "the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing‚ or previously existing‚ being or growing cloned tissue from

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    Human Cloning – A Moral Issue Alex Correa Ms. Coveney ENG 110 September 21‚ 2011 Essay 2 The topic of human cloning has become one of the most debated topics in the world since 1997 when Dr. Ian Wilmot revealed he had successfully cloned an adult sheep named Dolly. Since the cloning of Dolly‚ there has been ongoing discussions regarding the morally right and morally wrong of human cloning. According to the Gallup Polls‚ by Gallup‚ Inc.‚ as of May‚ 2010 – 63 percent of

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    The informational piece of Pro-Human Cloning that is produced by Simon Smith describes that cloning should be legalized because it allows couples another alternative to conception so if parent(s) want to have children that have the same genetically related child whose DNA was similar to those of the parent. Moreover‚ it allows the curing and prevention of diseases‚ and it allows one to clone organs and cells to improve treatment of life threatening-illnesses. However‚ even though Simon Smith reveals

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    Should human reproductive cloning be accepted? Based from Human Genome Project Information (n.d.)‚ “Cloning is a term traditionally used by scientists to describe different processes for duplicating biological material.” It means creating a genetically identical copy of an organism. Scientists attempted to clone animals for many years. In fact‚ there are hundreds of cloned animals existing today. It started in 1952 when a tadpole was cloned. But worldwide attention and concerns only aroused in

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