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Genetic Cloning - Essay

Genetic Cloning


On the approach to the second millennia, ‘cloning’ and the ability to manipulate and modify DNA has increased immensely. The field of genetic reproduction is creating a variety of unknown social and ethical consequences that are particular to our present time. Such consequences, although unknown now, of the manipulation of nature at such a primary biological level will have disastrous effects on the generations of the future. Cloning as a new science, concerns itself with the replication of organisms through asexual scientific method creating exact replications of the parent cell. However, cloning in the 90s has developed to the point where manipulation of human D.N.A is a very real ...

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are not so distant, as cloning has been the means by which humankind has cultivated flora for a millennia. In addition, selective breeding has been the means by which humankind has manipulated fauna for its own ends. In both cases genetic manipulation does serve humanity on many practical levels.
Secondly, humankind has genetically engineered many species through selective breeding. The potential of cloning in food production is, if not unclear, certainly unknown to most people. Selective breeding of flora and fauna has continued for eons. Only breeds of preference have been maintained as useful for humankind. The word ‘clone’ finds its origins in ancient Greek. ‘Klone’ (Kreb, 1985 p.164) defined simply in Greek means ‘twig’, a twig that you could place in the ground and the parent plant would be reproduced, better known now as ‘propagation’. Propagation has long been under the influence of genetic engineering in the form of selective breeding. An example of this is barking ...

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field where outcomes are unknown.
In more recent developments in the field of ‘cloning’ the case of ‘Dolly’, the genetically cloned sheep in the UK in 1997, evidence since of unknown problems have come to light. Recent scientific analysis (McCall, Yahoo.1999) has shown that the complex outcomes of the manipulation of fauna directly, are totally unpredictable. ‘Dolly’ was cloned three years ago and has apparently developed successfully, until close analysis has shown that in fact dolly has the genetic age and activity of a nine year old sheep. This is because she was cloned from a three year old, survived and grew for three years which totally accumulated to an increase in ...

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Added: 10/10/2004 09:41:29 PM
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