Cloning: Beneficial To The Future

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Cloning has been seen in many movies involving mad scientist taking a single strand of hair and copying a whole new person. Scientist are now making this idea into a reality, but is cloning really worth it? Cloning is replicating a DNA to make an identical copy of an organism. Cloning can be seen as beneficial to the future by creating a new organ to those in need or be a total disaster because of the baggage it brings like overpopulating the world or malpractice. The first demonstration of cloning was in 1885. The first cloning of a human embryonic stem cell was in 2013 (Citation 1). There are two way that cloning can happen, the first one is called Artificial Embryo Twinning. Artificial Embryo Twinning is very similar to the natural process

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