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Today there have been numerous examples of cloning. One of the first examples of
cloning was Dolly, a sheep cloned. She was the first animal to have been
recorded cloned. There have been many other examples as well of cloning, such as
certain type of rare plants, and endangered species like the bald eagle. As
cloning progress's their there's many objections why cloning should not be
allowed. There is positives of cloning such as having spare organs for a human
who's life is endangered and there is negative things such as a human actually
being cloned multiple times and used for terrorism.
Cloning is a relatively easy procedure. All you need to do is get a cell from
the animal you wish to clone, isolate the donor's nucleus, get a female of the
same type of animal, get an unfertilized egg, remove the eggs nucleus, insert
the other cell into the egg, and then put the egg back in the female's womb.
This process is usually very quick and easy, but what it does is unimaginable.
It clones the animal that you took the cell from. Scientists are still unsure as
to why the animal that you cloned does not live as long as the original.
Many of the clones have died in almost half the time of the original animal.
There are still many questions that need to be answered before they could even
begin to start cloning a real human. Many countries have banned human cloning.
China, Britain, The United States, Australia, to name a few. But what the
government does not see is a group of scientists getting together and trying to
make the first cloned human being. Take the group of scientists from Japan. They
all participated in an international project to clone a human being, but luckily
it was foiled by Japanese government before they actually did it. There have
been many attempts to clone a real person. For example, a German scientist has
been attempting to clone the first real person. He has many successions with
other animals and plants but the German government says he is still very far
away from creating the first cloned person.
Cloning is not all bad. The positive side of it is that you could
perhaps use certain parts of the cloned person as a producer of "spare organs"
and "therapeutic tissue" that could be used on people who have lost an organ or
to replace old tissue that has been destroyed in an accident. This would be a
great help for doctors everywhere. Some doctors have even fought to help
legalize certain types of cloning because you could have someone who have lost a
leg or a kidney and just use the person you cloned as sort of a donor with a
perfect match for everything. The only problem doctors see in this, is that if
you are taking parts from the cloned, technically that is a person and wouldn't
that be murder or assault if you did end up taking parts from the cloned person.
Generation Y, may see the first cloned human being. Many countries are trying
to do this as we read this paper. It's only a matter of time. What will other
countries do if they hear of such a thing? The only thing I could see from
cloning a person is a mass hysteria of people who do not know what to believe in
anymore. This is why most countries are keeping this a secret from the public
and will continue to until the time is right. |
