... animal was successfully cloned, on that history-making day the cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Wilmut took a cell from the udder of a six-year -old ewe and sparked a jolt of electricity to fuse it to the egg of another sheep, which was then implanted into a third female. The only questionable aspect of the experiment was ... dies after she is no longer able to have babies. Her dead child could be cloned, producing another child that would be of the same DNA, hers. Also, in the cases of homosexual men or women, a clone can be produced from one of the partners, rather than having a sp...

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... and how it got to be the large-scale discussion it is today. In 1938, Hans Spemann thought of a "fantastical experiment" to transfer one cell's nucleus into an egg without a nucleus. That is the basic thought in the process of cloning. In 1944, Oswald Avery discovered that genetic information was carried by the nucleic ... a clone of a monkey was done in March of 1997. That brought the cloning close to humans due to the relative likeness between primate and human DNA. There are many benefits to cloning. Many of the reasons people really want to see the cloning continue are the medical ben...

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... years of research and development, human cloning is quickly becoming a reality. The basic technique used to clone humans and animals, somatic-cell nuclear transfer, involves the insertion of DNA from a somatic cell into an egg which has had its nucleus removed (Appendix A.2). The egg begins to divide and develop into an embryo which is implanted into the uterus of a surrogate female, where it is carried ... to term and delivered(Appendix A.3). A clone is genetically identical to the person or animal who provided the somatic cell that provided the DNA. Much of the ... would be identical...

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... before scientists can build a human from scratch. Sequencing the human genome requires identifying 3.2 billion chemical "letters" located on the 46 coiled strands of DNA, found in nearly every human cell. While researchers now know the order in which DNA is arranged on the chromosomes, they haven't identified those chemical "letters", which contain the instructions for making the proteins that comprise the human body ... range of traits such as hair and eye colour, bigger muscles and so on. (Blackford 1999) Neighbourhood clinics could insert a block of genes into a newly fertilized egg....

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... , scientists are now able to make two human beings the same down to the genetic structure by cloning. In cloning "Technicians remove the genetic material from an egg cell and replace it with DNA from a donor, then grow the embryo in a petri dish until it's ready to be implanted, by the same process routinely used in fertilization clinics."" (Adler 102) In Scotland 1997 ... ...

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