Many people think that cloning is pretty cool. However some think this without really thinking about the consequences. People against cloning have their thoughts too, but, nevertheless, still don't know about the risk of cloning humans and animals. So what is really involved in the process of cloning and what risks are at state for the animal or person that is cloned?
Most people have heard of Dolly, the sheep that was cloned on July 5th 1996. According to globalchange.com if cloning were to be done on humans the same way Dolly was cloned the procedures would follow: 1. A cell is taken from a donor women 2. An unfertilized egg is taken from a second women 3. The DNA from the cell is removed and transferred to the egg 4. The egg is implanted in the surrogate mother 5. The resulting baby is the genetically identical to the original donor. If one really stops and thinks about the process then one will see that the donor cell that was used is a lot older than the age of the cells that a new born baby is supposed to have. The DNA causes the baby to be born with cells identical to that of the donor cell even in age. This means that the newborn baby although just a few hours old, he/she has cells may be more than twenty years old. For many reasons like this one it is believed that Dolly the sheep died at a very premature age. Dr. Patrick Dixon of globalchange.com says that if a human were to be cloned abnormalities could present themselves as far as twenty years after the person has been cloned. If the genes (which all humans are made of) wrongly mutate while a baby is still in the womb then the percentage of that baby looking "normal" are very slim.
Another con of cloning is the abuse of the procedure. Many power hungry leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Fidel Castro would love to clone the best army leader they have and seek control of many countries. If leaders like them were to out number ev
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