Cloning In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

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In this summary response I will be talking about cloning in Brave New
World and compare it too gene editing. In Brave New World the have a process called Bokanovsky’s Process which essentially is the fictional process for cloning humans. The human eggs in the story are put in to in vitro which means outside their normal biological habitat. In this world where the government controls everything it’s extremely important for them to control the number of humans. The process does not apply to the Alpha and Beta classes of the society since they are created special.The humans in this world are created for specific purposes to serve the government. The humans in Brave New World depending on what class are provided less oxygen and are given less

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