CLONING1

             To Clone or Not to Clone?
             In February 1997, when Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team of scientists in Scotland astonished the
             world by announcing that they had successfully cloned a sheep, it sparked an international
             debate. Since the invention of Dolly, scientists have been faced with the imminent technology to
             clone human beings. This has raised questions about what it means to be human and what
             restrictions should be placed on scientific research.
             Scientists should use methods of cloning of individual human cells because it provides
             benefits of curing diseases and regrowth of damaged organs or tissues. However, scientists
             should not clone whole adult human beings because of the violation of moral, ethical, and
             religious concerns. Hence, scientists must separate making spare body parts from making whole
             Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia defines cloning as:
             The production of duplicate copies of genetic material, cells, or entire multicellular living
             organisms. The copies are referred to as clones. Cloning occurs naturally and is also
             engineered by human beings. The possibility that people might be cloned from the cells of
             a single adult human had long been a subject primarily of fantasy and science fiction but
             became very definite at the end of the 20th century. This possibility stemmed from the
             successful cloning of lower mammals, leaving little doubt in many scientists' minds that
             humans could and would one day be cloned. (1)
             In nature, and even in the lives of humans, clones are present. A clone is an organism that
             has the same genetic information as another organism. Cloning occurs with all plants, some
             insects, algae, and even humans. Identical twins are clones of each other. They have the same
             exact genetic information due to t...

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