To clone or not to clone, that is the question. There are many people in the world pondering this very thought but, lets get one thing straight. If a person is cloned that is, lets say 40 years old then the clone will not be 40 years old, it will however be a new born baby. This idea is overwhelming because if you wanted to clone a loved one that you lost it would be like your child. This child would have no memories of you and won’t even know who you are. So Why even try to clone someone or something?
There are ways that cloning could “better” the human race. One of these ways is in the agricultural industry. If farmers could clone there best wool producing sheep, farmers could make better profits. The technique that is used to clone the animals is called nuclear transfer and as it improves it could dramatically benefit the agricultural industry. Another ways it can benefit animals is we now have the ability to save endangered species. Through cloning we can now clone endangered species so that they are no longer e
If there are so many things that are helped by cloning, then why is it banned? The thought of cloning on a large scale poses a big problem. That problem is the decline of genetic diversity. Think about it, if everyone has the same genetic material, what happens if we lose te ability to clone. We would have to resort to natural reproduction, causing people to inbreed, which could cause many genetic problems. If a population of organisms has the same genetic information, then a single disease would wipe out the entire population. Helping endangered species by cloning will not help the problem it might even hurt them. There are still many problems with the technique of nuclear transfer. For instance, it took 277 tries to produce Dolly, though scientist created lambs with abnormalities. This is one reason that we should at least hold off on human cloning. Another reason to not clone is because we are taking nature into our own hands. Religious organizations consider nuclear transfer to cause men to be reproductively obsolete.