tion.
             Are human genes the same as human destiny' Could natural selection
             be skewed so far that we had a nation of carbon-copy people' These are
             some of the weird science' fears voiced not only by opponents of cloning,
             but as cautions by proponents. But it is unlikely that such an event would
             There are, in fact, four different types of cloning. Two, gene
             cloning and cellular cloning, are merely methods of increasing supplies of
             DNA or of various cells to facilitate experiments and have nothing whatever
             to do with the much-feared whole organism cloning. (Shannon, 111)
             A third form of cloning is called embryo division and is artificially
             dividing an embryo in order to create multiple copies, and is used in the
             livestock industry regularly; whether it contributes to Mad Cow disease is
             another investigation entirely, although certainly there is some ethical
             content involved in the existence of Mad Cow disease and containing its
             spread. (Shannon, 111) Embryo division might be described as an
             artificial way to produce identical twins, as it mimics what happens in
             that very natural occurrence. From a technological standpoint, cloning is
             simply an extension of existing methods of assisting reproduction and
             determining genetic makeup of offspring, cow, human or otherwise. (Kass and
             The fourth sort of cloning is the one most people think about, the
             "Dolly the Sheep" sort of cloning. This is known scientifically as somatic
             cell nuclear transfer, or whole organism cloning. In this, the nucleus of
             the egg is removed and placed with the nucleus of another cell, which
             creates an identical genetic copy of the donor of that nucleus. "What is
             of utmost importance in the Dolly experiment is demonstrating that the
             genetic material in fully differentiated adult cells can be reactivated to
             generate a whole new being." (Shannon, 111) And that is what has caused
             all the...