Essay On Cloning

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The topic I chose was cloning, but I will be focusing on Human Cloning. Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to be created using cloning technology in 1997. With the birth of Dolly the sheep it had raise of a possibility of one day being able to clone human. It took 277 times to create dolly the sheep although it suffers from arthritis and premature aging. In December 2002, a religious group of Raelin claimed that a human baby was cloned but it had not been scientifically confirmed. In 1962 John Gurdon claimed to have cloned South African frogs from the nucleus differentiated adult intestinal cells. In 1964, F.E Stewart grew a complete carrot plant using the carrot root cells and to prove that cell cloning was possible. Francis Crick and James Watson were the first pioneers to discover double helix structure of DNA in 1953. It increased the scientific research of learning about human genetic codes and discovers the possibility of cloning. According to Vos (2004), “In 1984, Steen Willadsun cloned a sheep from embryo cells, which were the predecessor to Dolly’s method of cloning.” In 2002 Boisselier chemist and CEO of Clonaid, cloned Eve the first baby to be cloned and was 7lbs; she is known to be a healthy and happy baby. Eve was created by an America woman of 31 years old who donated her DNA for a cloning process. The woman didn’t give her name, but her embryo was implanted and then gestated to the baby, with that it would make an identical twin as an exact genetic duplicate of the mother. The reason why she decided to donate her DNA was because her husband was infertile of resorted cloning.
There are two ways to make an exact genetic copy which are artificial embryo twinning, and somatic cell nuclear transfer. Artificial embryo ...

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...s is that in some states human clone research was banned, other were ensure legally without being fund and in California for instance is funding embryonic stem cell research.
I think that human cloning shouldn’t be controversial because it’s giving people a second chance to either live longer or become parents for the first time. I think it’ll be very useful in the future and besides its not hurting anyone. To some people they might not think it’s a good idea because of the different features it might have but then again its being used for good. Human cloning sounds weird, but I think it’s interesting to know that animals and human can be cloned. I would like to learn more, that’s one reason why I decided to write about this topic. Human cloning as positive things to it even if there are side effects to this issue but it’s not harming anyone its helping the world.

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