Cloning: The Face of a Better Tomorrow

As the world has grown and developed, there has been more of a demand for newer and more efficient ways to solve world problems. Cloning has opened up doors and shined some light onto some optional ways of resolving various global issues. Cloned animals could be used to increase productivity in the manufacturing and sale of meat. Cloning could also improve our agriculture and help to preserve our animal population. Lastly, cloning could quite possibly serve a major purpose in the medical field. In spite of several doubts and risks, cloning is an innovative process that can produce a variety of overwhelming benefits that can better today’s and tomorrow’s future.

To many it may seem as if cloning has just recently been discovered but in reality cloning has been around for years. In the article “Clone and Cloning” from The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, it mentioned that for more than ten centuries human beings have toiled and altered with the reproduction of plants by using techniques such as the cutting of stems and grafting. A year that is significant in the field of cloning is the year 1958, this is when the practice of cloning was first brought into the modern day lab. John Gurdon was the first to participate in the actual process of cloning animal cells. So in a sense John Gudon is sort of like a pioneer or innovator in the cloning field. With the research from John Gurdon and his cloning technique, American

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and Swiss scientists were able to partake in the cloning of mice. In doing this, it made the mouse the first ever recorded mammal to be cloned and result in success. A few years later and the cow was cloned in 1988. When it comes to cloning Dolly the sheep is a well know name ...

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...line of human cloning and its benefits. Several ways that cloning benefits humans are listed and explained to a certain extent. Support for human cloning is also discussed and in a variety of different situations.

Wexler, Barbara. “Cloning.” Genetics and Genetic Engineering. 2009 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Student Resources in Context. Web. 27 Feb. 2011. . This article entry includes various facts and information about cloning. Some main issues that are mentioned is cloning being used for genetics, therapeutic uses, and reproduction. Opinions on cloning are stated and studied in great detail with several polls.