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Two of Us: Cloning Essay

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you had twin or even if you had a clone? If you had an illness like diabetes, have you ever wondered what it would be like if you did not? Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another. The first successful clone was in 1997 when scientist Edinburgh cloned Dolly the sheep. She was the first animal to be cloned with an adult somatic cell by using the process of nuclear transfer. She was born on July 5 1996, lived to the age of six and died after being diagnosed with lung disease called Jaagsiekte. (First Cloned Sheep Dolly Dies at 6 page 1).
This is a common disease in sheep caused by retrovirus (First Cloned Sheep Dolly Dies at 6 page 1). There were many …show more content…

(Kilner, John Human cloning page 1). The tissue or organ would be transplanted into the patient, and then the stem cells would grow into tissue or organ that is needed for the patient. (Robinson B.A. Therapeutic cloning how it is done possible benefits). Embryonic cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace damaged ones. (Human cloning page 1).
Therapeutic cloning can also be called embryo cloning. (Human Genome Project Information page 3). In therapeutic cloning, the resultant embryo would grow for about fourteen days and the stem cells would be extracted into a human tissue or a complete human. Then the embryo would be implanted in a woman’s womb and developed in to a new human whose DNA is the same to the original individual. (Robinson, B.A Therapeutic cloning how it is done Possible Benefits page 1). The goal of therapeutic cloning is not to so much create cloned human beings but to harvest stem cells that can be used to generate any type of specialized cell in the human body. Problems can also come from programming errors in the genetic material from a donor cell. (Human Genome Project Information page 3). The difference between therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning is that therapeutic cloning involves cloning cells from an adult for use in medicine and is an active area of research. Reproductive cloning involves making cloned humans and this is illegal in many countries. Some American states ban both

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