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    surrogate animal. The third type of cloning is Therapeutic cloning in which one of the goals is to produce stem cells that can be used for replacing diseased tissue and other medical benefits. The process of cloning is also very important. There are a couple of ways that scientists can create a clone, one of which is artificial embryo twinning and the other is somatic cell nuclear transfer. The first process to be discovered was artificial embryo twinning; this…

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    negatives that need to be accounted for, but the positives are so beneficial that cloning should be used in science. Organisms that are genetically a copy of another organism are clones ("What is Cloning?"). These organisms are produced from a single cell (Miller and Levine). Clones can be produced naturally,…

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    Pros And Cons Of Cloning

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    scientist have been trying to do for over 50 years with cloning. According to the American Medical Association, cloning is defined as “the production of genetically identical organisms via somatic cell nuclear transfer. ‘Somatic cell nuclear transfer’ refers to the process in which the nucleus of a somatic cell of an existing (or previously existing) organism is transferred into an oocyte from which the nucleus has been removed.” (Pros and Cons of Human Cloning, 2017). There are three different…

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    1996 the very first cloned mammal was born Blackface Sheep 6ll3 or Dolly was created by the Roslin Institute in Scotland Dolly was brought into existence using the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer Somatic cell nuclear transfer is when the nucleus which contains most of the genetic information in a cell is taken from a cell in the mammary gland of an adult animal. Then the nucleus of an unfertilized egg is removed and then replaced with the nucleus from the mammary gland. The egg was…

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    Mammal cloning is when a mature somatic cell is removed by researchers from an animal that they wish to produce with genetically the same information as the parents. The purpose is to produce a clone with the same genetic material as the individual from which the genetic material is taken from. They use different techniques for mammal cloning. The techniques used foe mammal cloning are embryo splitting and somatic cell nuclear transfer. Embryo splitting is used in sheep for effective traits…

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    GENETIC TRANSFER MANIPULATION Humans have been manipulating the natural genetic transfer of animals and plants for a long time. Cloning and selective breeding are well known examples of genetic transfer manipulation. This report will focus on these two manipulations, and the implications they can have on the individuals, and the populations too. In order to show why genetic transfer manipulations are used, and to see the implications of it, the cases of “Dolly” the cloned sheep, and domesticated…

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    Why Is Cloning Wrong

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    Many people think cloning is wrong based off of moral decisions. Cloning children would show people that they can now be designed according to the parent’s wishes. Critics fear that children created through somatic cell transfer would have unfair expectations of having the talents or achievements of whoever provided the DNA. The child would have to live up to those expectations. “Imagine discovering that you are the clone of a child your parents lost, and you live your life always being compared…

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    The Benefits Of Stem Cells

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    body. Being able to regrow damaged cells sounds whole heartedly good. Although many people are against it because of how they repair the loss or damaged cells. To be able to repair damaged cells scientist must first obtain stem cells. Stem cells can be obtained three ways. First by reverse engineering the cell, this type of stem cell is called a pluri-potent cell. The second way is by borrowing some of the adult’s stem cells thus comes the name Adult stem cells. The last method is the method…

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    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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    Therapeutic Cloning

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    animal testing, the science world and society have always disagreed on many subjects. One of those controversial subjects that science and society still hasn't agreed on is Therapeutic Cloning. Therapeutic cloning is the practice of producing embryonic cells to replace or repair a damaged tissue or organ (Henry, 2010). Therapeutic cloning is a long and complicated process, which has also experienced many failures. The process…

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