Cloning

Cloning

Introduction

From as early as the beginning of this century until this present day scientists are looking for safe ways to clone animals and also human beings. This issue of cloning will raise so much controversy; some people feel that it is very wrong and should be banned forever and others feel that cloning is one of mans greatest accomplishments and should be experimented on humans. There are many implications relating to the issue which are all equally important and have to be taken into consideration in discussing them.

Cloning is a procedure in where a cell is taken from a male organism and combined with an egg from a donor female. Once they are both taken, they are combined, fertilized, and then placed back into the uterus for incubation. By taking this cell from another organism, you are giving the expected off-spring an exact replica of the subjects DNA.

Human cheek cells

Human cheek cells

Human Cloning Raëlian

Everyone knows that each organism's DNA is different. This procedure would totally redefine everything technology has worked on for the past one hundred years.

Biological and environmental implications

There are different opinions held which consider both biological and environmental implications towards the issue. Both sides, the advantages and disadvantages are strongly accepted and balanced with respect to the evidence that is known to us recently.By cloning humans it would be better for scientists to understand the human genome and for further understanding our past. Another reason for cloning humans is that there is a very long organ transplant waiting lists and if you were to clone humans and harvest their embryos those people on the waiting lists lives would be saved and the waiting list would be no more. This might solve a lot of our problems and answer a lot of questions.

Cloning might also directly offer...