How Animal Cloning Relates to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Since it’s start, animal cloning has be surrounded by several controversies and speculations about it’s safety, procedure, and results. Many people support animal cloning for its prospective rebirth of endangered species and the advancement of safer food products (Bio.org). However, for every person that supports animal cloning there is a person who is against it. People who disapprove of animal cloning believe that it is an invasive procedure that is morally and ethically wrong and puts animals through unnecessary pain and suffering. Whatever feelings are had toward animal cloning, there is an obvious connection between it and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; both of which concern experimentation with creating life through scientific means. …show more content…
Scientists will take a cell from a genetic donor, the donor and the clone will have the same genetic makeup, and extract the DNA from the cell which will replace the nucleus in an egg from an egg donor. The result of this is an egg that contains the genetic donor’s DNA and it will be put into a surrogate mother where it will continue to grow as a normal egg would (Bio.org). The first successful cloning of an animal through the use of adult cells was done in 1996 by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell who cloned a sheep named Dolly that was born on July 5 (Harvard.edu). This successful cloning was a major breakthrough in the cloning field because it was the first mammalian clone. After the successful cloning of Dolly, the science behind animal cloning has taken many great strides and several different types of livestock, mice, and domesticate animals have been
Since it’s start, animal cloning has be surrounded by several controversies and speculations about it’s safety, procedure, and results. Many people support animal cloning for its prospective rebirth of endangered species and the advancement of safer food products (Bio.org). However, for every person that supports animal cloning there is a person who is against it. People who disapprove of animal cloning believe that it is an invasive procedure that is morally and ethically wrong and puts animals through unnecessary pain and suffering. Whatever feelings are had toward animal cloning, there is an obvious connection between it and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; both of which concern experimentation with creating life through scientific means. …show more content…
Scientists will take a cell from a genetic donor, the donor and the clone will have the same genetic makeup, and extract the DNA from the cell which will replace the nucleus in an egg from an egg donor. The result of this is an egg that contains the genetic donor’s DNA and it will be put into a surrogate mother where it will continue to grow as a normal egg would (Bio.org). The first successful cloning of an animal through the use of adult cells was done in 1996 by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell who cloned a sheep named Dolly that was born on July 5 (Harvard.edu). This successful cloning was a major breakthrough in the cloning field because it was the first mammalian clone. After the successful cloning of Dolly, the science behind animal cloning has taken many great strides and several different types of livestock, mice, and domesticate animals have been