Cloning
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The question that we all want to know is “Should Cloning Be Allowed?”.… In order to answer that question, researchers have to look at the pros and cons of cloning and where cloning first began. The beginning of cloning started from the structure known as DNA. DNA is the heredity function of beginning humans and all living organisms. Almost every cell in every human being has the same DNA structure.
The main important part of DNA is that DNA can duplicate itself. Each cell of DNA is the starting pattern of another one, which is the beginning process of cloning. Cloning is the process in which an organism is genetically duplicated, which means that the DNA between the two organisms is identical. Cloning usually involves one subject that is being duplicated. Two subjects are needed during cloning.
There are two ways of the process of cloning. The two ways are Adult DNA cloning and Therapeutic Cloning. The Adult DNA cloning is done by it involves removing the DNA from an embryo and replacing it with the DNA from a cell removed from an individual. The same process as used in the Adult DNA cloning does the Therapeutic Cloning.
The first cloning procedure was Dolly the sheep. To make Dolly, researchers isolated a cell from the female adult sheep then transferred the nucleus from that cell to an egg cell from which the nucleus had been removed. This made Dolly the sheep an exact replica.
Even though the cloning of Dolly the sheep was a success, there were a lot of failures in the procedure of cloning, which is why I think cloning shouldn’t be allowed. I think cloning shouldn’t be allowed is because animals that are being cloned, do survive but later down on the road they develop large organs in their system which can lead to other serious health complications such as breathing, blodd flow, kidney and brain failure which can effect the animal development in adulthood stage. I also think that cloning shouldn’t be allowed because on the fact that the procedure of cloning has a high failure rate.
The failure rate of cloning starts out from 0.1 percent to 3 percent. This failure rate of cloning is showing my opinion on why it shouldn’t be allowed. If this is the high failure rate for the cloning of animals, imagine the failure rate for us humans if cloning was allowed and successful.