Cloning

             Let us discuss a future of cloning on animals and humans. We have heard about cloning for many years now. However, we did not know that they had actually been doing it, until they successfully cloned Dolly the sheep.
             Cloning is an organism, or group of organisms, derived from another organism by an asexual (non-sexual) reproductive process.
             The word clone has been linked to cells as well as to organisms, so a group of cells stemming from one cell is called a clone.
             The first successful clone of entire organism was an adult sheep named Dolly, cloned February of 1997 by Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team of scientists in Scotland. This was the first time ever that a mammal had been cloned from the cells of an adult sheep. Animals had been cloned before using the cells of developing embryos soon after they begin to form in the egg. The scientific breakthrough was accomplished by researchers in Edinburgh at the Roslin Institute, a center for genetic research of farm animals. The goal of their efforts is to improve animal breeding and create new health products for the biopharmaceutical industry.
             There is some misunderstanding about what constitutes a clone. A human clone would be the genetic identical twin, a generation or younger than the donor (not the mother) who provided the nucleus. Nevertheless, because people are more than a product of their genes, a clone would have its own personality, character, intelligence, and talents exactly as identical twins do (who are natural clones stemming from the same egg). You cannot clone a person's mind or brain, and a person's experiences contribute to individual traits.
             This means that even if you wanted to you cannot duplicate your identical self. Even if you were to clone yourself several times, you would not be able to create the same person each time, because every human life, no matter how conceived is unique. It is also impossible to copy a deceased person, or historica...

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