Dolly

Dystopian texts often present an exaggerated vision of the world that is vastly different to reality, mostly as the consequence of certain human responses and actions in the past or current society, thus adding to the shocking aspects of the text. Literature of the dystopia genre also challenge preconceptions about the world and the human identity, thus provoking further contemplation about what it means to be human. Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel Never Let Me Go (2005) demonstrates that…

cloning is possible, rather if it should be done. Dolly is the name of a sheep that has the honor of being the first mammal to be cloned by a group of scientists in Scotland. Dolly was born July 5th, 1996 and passed away in 2003. She lived for six and a half years, as a normal ewe typically would. She was not that normal though, she was a clone after all. Her mother was a black faced sheep, which are known to never produce white faced sheep. Dolly was a direct clone of her father, a white sheep.…

and it could also save rare wildlife that are almost extinct. The discovery of the possibility of cloning something goes back to the late 1800s. The first recorded cloned animal was in 1996 and it was a cloned sheep named Dolly. Since the success of the cloned sheep, Dolly, scientist have cloned many other animals…

Animal cloning is often a controversial topic; with its decade old history, successes with Dolly the sheep and advancements in science today. Unlike asexual species, cloning uses man-made tools and human engineering to replicate animals. As such, cloning has a long history of trial and error, often leading to tragic results and ensuing controversy. The advancements in science have escalated since the creation of Dolly, following Dolly’s cloning there are more methods that have been discovered,…

copies of objects, such as printing out paper, but what is now a huge ethical concern is the cloning of humans. Cloning is not scientific fiction anymore, scientists already successfully cloned a whole adult sheep mammal, which is famously known as “Dolly the Sheep”, and also many more animals such as cows, mice and cats.The process of cloning organisms involves the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer. Which means that the DNA of an organism(called the donor) is extracted from a…

goats, cows, and cattle. Cloning won't be able to solve the problem of extinction, but it can definitely be used to speak out about the problem. 40% of the world’s species are at risk to be extinct. 2000s, using the same technique that produced Dolly, researchers have cloned several endangered and even extinct mammals. mouflon sheep, deer, bison, and coyotes have been cloned. As cloning is now a…

When the sheep Dolly was born, cloning turned from a Science Fiction to a reality humans have to deal with on so many levels. Cloning to bring back distinct animals, create a new breads and for humans cloning either to produce children for people who can’t have them, to avoid DNA related diseases, to produce organs for sick people who need them, to get a fresh new clone of a lost loved ones or even create super humans. All that has raised a lot of talk among the public. Since Day one, cloning…

Cloning has already revolutionized biology and medicine with the appearance of Dolly, “the first mammal ever cloned from a sheep’s adult cell” (Rhind et al. 855). Since then, scientist have tried to clone human cells even though it hasn't been legalised due to moral and religious values. Specialists say is not a matter of whether it should be legalised or not, but a matter of when is it going to be legalised. The question of whether to clone individuals is one that does not require a reply. Now…

Cloning pets might not be the holy grail that everyone is hoping for. In 1996, scientists were celebrating the success in cloning their first mammal, Dolly the sheep. Recently, they found a way to clone monkeys using the same technique. Now, anyone willing to pay the price can get their beloved pet cloned. But cloning has some serious downsides. Cloning a pet can be very expensive and uses up hard-earned money. In addition, cloning a pet has countless of side effects and cloned animals have…

Associated Press article “Scientists successfully clone monkeys; are humans up next?” Malcolm Ritter, a science reporter from New York City states that, researchers have successfully cloned two female macaques by using the same methods used to produce Dolly the sheep. This is a huge breakthrough because there has never been a successful clone produced from the primate family, which includes monkeys, apes, and humans. Furthermore, Muming Poo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai stated…