Reproductive Or Therapeutic Cloning?
The word cloning describes many different processes that can be use to make identical copies of existing organisms or object. The copied object has the same genetic makeup as the original, the copied material is a clone. Scientist have cloned many biological materials such as genes, cells, tissues, and whole organism like dolly the sheep. There is also natural clones, some plants and single celled organisms like bacteria make genetically identical off springs through a process called asexual reproduction. In asexual reproduction, a new organism is made from a copy of a single cell from the parent organism. Identical twins are also natural clones and they happen in humans and other animals. Twins are produced when a fertilized egg splits, creating
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Gene cloning, also known as DNA cloning, is a very different process from reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Reproductive and therapeutic cloning have many of the same techniques, but are done for different purposes. Many people oppose to cloning & human cloning because when somatic cell nuclear transfer is use to clone the nucleus of an egg and all of it’s DNA is removed .In 1997 the United States president Bill Clinton challenged the techniques of human cloning such as somatic cell nuclear transfer, here is a simple and brief description: the nucleus and all DNA from a fertilized egg is removed and then the nucleus from the isolated somatic cell is transfer to the egg and after a couple chemical tweaks you got a freshly fertilized egg. The isolated somatic cell comes from the organism which is going to be cloned. When the nucleus and all DNA is removed from the egg is like killing a person which is why Bill Clinton challenged this types of …show more content…
During president Clinton’s term in office, the National Institutes of Health decided that as long as private labs destroyed the embryos and produced the stem cells, the federal government would fund research on those cells. Then in 2001, president Bush prohibited federally funded research on embryonic stem cells produced after the date his prohibition was in place. Scientist are currently focusing more on stem cell research instead of cloning because stem cell research brings more to the table at the present time. They are also working on answering the questions people have on cloning for example Why humans should be cloned, and the destiny justification which most people ask, also the risks of cloning and what can be reach with
Gene cloning, also known as DNA cloning, is a very different process from reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Reproductive and therapeutic cloning have many of the same techniques, but are done for different purposes. Many people oppose to cloning & human cloning because when somatic cell nuclear transfer is use to clone the nucleus of an egg and all of it’s DNA is removed .In 1997 the United States president Bill Clinton challenged the techniques of human cloning such as somatic cell nuclear transfer, here is a simple and brief description: the nucleus and all DNA from a fertilized egg is removed and then the nucleus from the isolated somatic cell is transfer to the egg and after a couple chemical tweaks you got a freshly fertilized egg. The isolated somatic cell comes from the organism which is going to be cloned. When the nucleus and all DNA is removed from the egg is like killing a person which is why Bill Clinton challenged this types of …show more content…
During president Clinton’s term in office, the National Institutes of Health decided that as long as private labs destroyed the embryos and produced the stem cells, the federal government would fund research on those cells. Then in 2001, president Bush prohibited federally funded research on embryonic stem cells produced after the date his prohibition was in place. Scientist are currently focusing more on stem cell research instead of cloning because stem cell research brings more to the table at the present time. They are also working on answering the questions people have on cloning for example Why humans should be cloned, and the destiny justification which most people ask, also the risks of cloning and what can be reach with