To clone an important person such as a political .
personality would take about forty years depending on the subject's age. .
Another very important aspect to be considered would be the environment in .
which the clone would be raised. According to L. Thomas, the surroundings help .
shape ones personality. In order to create an identical human being, all the .
people around him/her would have to be cloned as well, not only that but also, .
the conditions, places, and objects would have to be identical. To successfully .
clone a human, the whole world would have to be cloned, and humanity would .
loose the sense of uniqueness that has been essential for sociological and .
psychological development (L. Thomas exaggerated a little on that last part).
The two more common uses for human cloning include research cloning .
and reproductive cloning. Research and/or therapeutic cloning which .
happens when a given embryonic cell is cloned for the purpose of scientific .
research or the regeneration of a tissue to later be implanted in a human subject. .
Reproductive cloning consists in the cloning of a cell of a woman who has had .
difficulties to procreate and to insert it in to one of her malfunctioning eggs to .
create a newborn.
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Human cloning holds the key of hope for many people, from those who .
require a transplant but have no donors to unfertile women that otherwise .
would not have a chance to have a baby with a genetically similar composition as .
their own. .
Research/therapeutic cloning would replace the organ transplants from .
other donors which sometime may be incompatible as to the point as to become .
deadly. In this case, therapeutic cloning would be used to reproduce the .
patient's organ or tissue in its original working condition eliminating the lethal .
possibilities of rejection by the patients body. As shown by ***Transplant News, .
an incompatible organ could truly be deadly. In February 2003 a 17 year old .