sociologist
You can either be for or against cloning. Here are
some reasons people think the way they do.
For cloning…
• Better medical research
• It would be cool
• Parents enable to have
children
• Help children born with
disorders.
• To help further cloning
research
Against cloning…
• It could damage the
child
• Cloning and the research
is expensive
• It can destroy the lives of
the human embryos.
• Some call it unethical
“Cloning can be used for infertile couples desiring children”
What do you think cloning means?
Cloning means the creation of an organism that is an
exact genetic copy of another.
1. Gene Cloning
2. Reproductive Cloning
3. Therapeutic Cloning
Gene cloning creates copies of genes or segments of
DNA.
Reproductive cloning creates copies of whole animals.
Therapeutic Cloning is embryonic stem cells, which is with
the potential to develop into many different types of cells
in the body.
Yes, many plants, animals, and humans do clone
naturally. In nature, plants and single-celled organisms
produce identical offspring through a process called
asexual reproduction. In humans and animals, they
produce natural clones too. This means having
identical twins.
Her name was Dolly. Dolly was born inn 1997. But soon
died in February of 2003. Some people think she died
because of the cloning, and some think she died
because of lung cancer.
Other than Dolly, many other animals were cloned
too. Such as, cats, deer, dogs, horses, etc.
• Cloning- A cell, group of cells, or organism
that is decreased from and genetically
identical to a single common ancestor,
such as a bacterial colony whose
membranes arose from a single cell.
• Cloning starts with collection of a somatic cell from
an organism.
• Somatic cells are any cells taken from the body the
are not sex cells such as eggs and sperm.
• Scientists remove the somatic cell nucleus, which
contains a copy of all the organisms genetic
material.
• They then collect an egg cell from either the same
organism or same species and add somatic cells.
• DNA Cloning- Involves manipulating
DNA procedures in order to produce
multiple copies of a single gene or
segment of DNA.
• Reproductive Cloning- The genetic
duplication of an existing organism
especially by transforming the nucleus of a
somatic cell of the organism into an
enucleated oocyte.
• Therapeutic Cloning- The permitted creation
of cloned human tissues for surgical
transplant.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/cloning/
• The first law against
cloning was in 1997
in California.
• Since then 15
different states have
developed laws on
cloning!
• Arkansas
• Michigan
• Connecticut
• Rhode island
• Indiana
• New jersey
• Iowa
• Maryland
• North and South
Dakota
• Massachusetts
• Virginia
http://www.ncsl.org/issuesresearch/health/human-cloning-laws.aspx
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