Should Cloning Be Allowed?
By: David • Essay • 402 Words • December 6, 2009 • 914 Views
Essay title: Should Cloning Be Allowed?
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.