Conclusion: The clone, being directly derived from the host, would indeed have the same fingerprints. That is, the ridge events in a unit formation of the host and the clone would correspond. Cloning would be the only way for infertile couples to give birth to a baby with their own DNA. The child would not inherit memories or experiences of the DNA donor. The child would be a time delayed twin of the father, mother or anyone else that donates DNA. Like a identical twin the cloned child would not have the same fingerprints as the DNA donor. In most cases, there would also be a considerable…
Kass On his idea of human cloning being an unethical experimentation on the unborn and that it is too risky for such procedure. Everything in science begins with one step. Eventually progress will continue and science will be perfected. There is a first for everything. The first IVF was scary and dangerous but something amazing came out of that experiment, a perfectly and healthy human being. I also disagree with Kass about it threatens individuality and turns procreation into manufacture. I strongly believe that even if people have the same genotype and look the same as the original person that there will be no conflict of individuality. Society and environment molds people in how they should behave. I believe, society and the culture in where you are raised molds you to the person you are today. Your Moral and ethical reasoning are mostly due to culture roots, meaning, where you were born. Even if you are a clone you do not have expectation to meet nor do you have to live the life of others but solely yours. One may try to argue that wouldn’t parents want to have a cloned child from an original all star basketball legend? My answer is sure you can. However, having high expectations even if that clone is a copy of a legend doesn’t mean that clone is going to follow the same footsteps as the original. Maybe the clone decides to play baseball instead of basketball and still excels because what he is actually good at is “sports” in general. Moreover,…
Imagine a world where there are clones who look exactly like a specific person. A world with many famous figures of the past, such as George Washington, Mother Teresa, and so many more. With cloning, that world may be possible, concluded “Cloning and the Human Family: Theology After Dolly” by Allen Verhey. A clone is a genetic copy of an individual. Scientifically, animals and other species can be cloned by “transferring DNA from a single cell of an animal into an egg cell and creating a relatively exact copy of that animal,” according to “Genetic Defects Found in Cloned Animals” by Steve Mitchell (Mitchell).…
As revealed earlier, cloning humans has a high failure rate, because there are many barriers put in by nature to prevent an “unnatural” event from occurring. These barriers can happen anytime during the cloning process. For example, the enucleated egg might not be compatible with the donor nucleus, the newly transferred nucleus may not grow and develop properly, the step where the embryo is implanted into the surrogate could fail, or the pregnancy may fail. Even if the pregnancy succeeds, there is no guarantee that the clone will act like a clone unless the right genes are activated. In a transferred human cloning, the scientist has to re-program the nucleus and force it to pretend as if it belongs in an early embryonic stage. If the nucleus is not programmed properly or completely, the embryo will more than likely become abnormal or die. Now, if the embryo manages to pass all of the post-zygotic barriers, “there is a possibility that the [fully developed] cloned individual might carry certain abnormalities…” causing them to live a shorter life span than expected (Wickman). There are also other concerns, besides health-related, such moral issues. The ability to clone individuals could lead to an out-of-control situation created by someone who wants to create an army of genetic replicas by abusing the new…
An essential part of having an enjoyable college experience starts with a good roommate. Unfortunately not all roommates fall into this category. To me a bad roommate is someone undesirable to live with. For the purpose of this essay we will create a character named Corey. Corey could be someone who is unclean, invades my privacy, or behaves differently in private than in public.…
Of course, a person may start off with a base personality, but as life goes, he or she chooses who he or she wants to be. John Locke believed that the mind starts off as a blank state. One’s knowledge and everything a person is is determined by experience. One can see this in the novel when Ruth decides her dream is to work in an office. The clones live such different lives that…
One of the main issues that cloning brings about is whether or not people will take advantage of this new technology. For instance, Lewis Thomas wonders if “the rich and powerful but socially objectionable” or the “governments of dumb, docile masses” will misuse the technology. These seemingly important people may be able to give themselves a “version of immortality”. Just because the ability to clone exists does not mean that valuable people should be able to multiply themselves. No one on Earth is exactly the same for a reason, and it should stay that way. If there were to be several hundred Paris Hiltons or Kim Kardashians walking around, the world would be a pretty terrifying place. People should remain unique, separate from the “precise sameness” that Thomas…
I think I fit in most of the traits. Those traits would be sharp, smart, funny, can make people laugh, ready to help others, okay at solving problems, compassionate, and I could be stubborn at times.…
My future wife will be the first and last. My ideal traits I want my significant other to have are to love the outdoors so that she can have fun and not have to worry about getting dirty, to be able to treat herself with shopping, to be able to cook for me because I am not capable of doing it for myself, unless I want to eat microwave dinners every…
The ethical issues that are raised from to this issue have not been successfully debated about, and is still in the grey, and thus human cloning could produce more problems than solutions among between the opposing members of NZers. Ethical issues such as ‘are clones entitled to human rights’, what is the clones’ identity crisis, is the clone an individual or an extension of the copied human, etc raises far too many sub-branching questions, most of which cannot be answered without making implications on other controversial issues, such as abortion, contraceptives, murder, etc. For the sake of our current social stability, reproductive clones should not be introduced into our world, which threatens the moral values, dignity and pride that our laws, society, and as individual humans, stand firmly…
Instead of every teenage girl hanging up posters of their favourite teen pop/movie star in their room, and drooling over the wedding that will never happen, they can simply clone their own celebrity and have their very own! Is it fair to create human life simply for the pleasure of another human being? And would this new clone be considered human? Would there be competition amongst the other clones of the same person? Would something disastrous occur such as rebelling against humans made the natural way? Or is this a gateway to something better than one could ever imagine?…
If we look at the best experience we have, identical twins, we find that twins share only 50% of personality characteristics and 70% of their intelligence, so we could safely assume clones would be nowhere near Zerox copies of the original.…
In the TedTalk with Robin Hanson, he points out that can be cloned so long as their function is better than those of ‘normal’ people. For instance, when creating AIs, we would want the AIs to have the best ability they can possibly have. “... People who make emulations will be focused on the few best humans will be suited for this world because you can make the most money on them…” (Hanson). When we capitalize on these robots, they’re mere objects than things or humans trying to survive and provide for their family.…
Why shouldn't humans attempt to clone living organisms including humans? Why do people think it is wrong? Nevertheless, natural cloning occurs everywhere. All plants, some insects, algae, unicellular organisms that conduct mitosis or binary fissions, and identical twins are all clones of each other. As long as genetic make-up is the same they are considered clones. Cloning would bring endless potentially important benefits to everyday life and more importantly, the future.…
Some where down the road the daughter will look exactly like the mother the father fell in love with many years ago, only younger and more attractive. Taking into consideration the fact that the father has no blood relation to the daughter, he might be inclined to start a relationship with the younger replica of his wife. On the mothers side of the equation, the mother would know exactly what the clone is capable of and expect the clone to fully utilize its potential. The mother would also have an unfair understanding of what the clone is going through at different points in life and could prevent the clone from learning from its mistakes. Personally I am glad that I was able to make my own mistakes and learn from them without anyone else knowing how I was feeling at a particular stage in my life. This element is crucial to anyone's life and needs to be…