Cloning

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When most people think of cloning they think of the worst, and why shouldn’t they? Media today has only filled their head with made up stories and science fiction novels that will make people scared of something they know nothing about. When people think of human cloning they think of Hitler’s clones running around causing wars and killing people. People also think that cloning makes exact copies of an existing adult human, but that’s not true. Cloning technology can only produce a cloned embryo. The embryo must develop in a uterus, and then the developed child must experience childhood and adolescence. The clone will be identical physically not behaviorally to its donor. They are only told the worst of what could happen and not the benefits that we could receive from cloning humans and animals, and there are many. I personally believe in cloning to benefit humans and animals alike.
These scientific breakthroughs all came about in 1997 once Dolly the cloned sheep was made. Ever since then, the world has been responding mostly in a negative matter. Individuals feel as though we should not be playing God. In scientific terms there is no God, to them we were made by the big bang, so who is to say who is right and who is wrong. People have so many differences of opinion. Until the world becomes more comfortable with this, scientists will have to wait, do to the fact that laws have banned cloning. People have to see all the wonderful things that this will bring to our lives, and get past the morality of it.
One of the major reasons for cloning will be to develop efficient ways to alter animals genetically and reproduce them reliably. Alterations include adding genes, such as those for human proteins to create drug-producing animals. This as well is an able inactivating gene to study the effects and possibly produce animal models of human diseases. Cloning technology also may someday be used in humans to produce whole organs fro...