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Ian Taylor Clare Alexa
Cloning
Is it really what Star Wars said?
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FOR YEARS, CLONING HAS BEEN ONE OF THE WORLDS
MOST CURIOUS TYPE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH. THE
PROCESS OF COPYING AN ORIGINAL, LIVING SOUL,
BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT, HAS LONG MET GREAT
ARGUMENTS FROM THE HIGHLY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY.
MANY CONSIDER IT UN ETHICAL TO TRY AND CREATE
LIFE IN THE SAME WAY AS A GOD. HOWEVER, FIND IT
ENTERTAINING TO PLAY WITH IT WITH THEIR PUDGY
LITTLE HANDS.
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• THERE ARE ACTUALLY 3 MAJOR TYPES OF CLONING.
• THE FIRST TYPE OF CLONING HAS 4 DIFFERENT NAMES.
  ONE IS CALLED RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY, DNA
  TECHNOLOGY, DNA CLONING, MOLECULAR CLONING, OR
  GENE CLONING. THIS IS THE PROCESS OF CLONING A
  GENE. YOU TAKE A PIECE OF DNA (AKA A GENE) AND
  PLACE IT INTO A DNA CELL. THEN YOU INJECT THIS
  CELL INTO BACTERIA. THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT
  BACTERIA REPRODUCES VERY EFFICIENTLY AND QUICKLY,
  AND SO COMBINED WITH THE RECOMBINED DNA CELL, IT
  PRODUCES NUMEROUS COPIES OF THE DESIRED GENE.
  HOPEFULLY, YOU HAVE CLONED A HEALTHY GENE.
• DNA CLONING IS PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT TYPE
  OF CLONING. IF YOU GOT A GENE SCAN AND FOUND YOU
  HAD, SAY, A GENE IN A LUNG CELL THAT COULD CAUSE
  LUNG CANCER, YOU COULD GET A GOOD LUNG GENE
  CLONED AND PUT IN IN THE PLACE OF THE BAD ONE.
  THIS COULD EMIT SOME SERIOUS HEALTH PROBLEMS.
• DNA CLONING IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR GENE RESEARCH.
  IF A SCIENTIST WANTED TO STUDY THE OBESITY GENE,
  THEY COULD CLONE MULTIPLE COPIES TO DO
  EXPERIMENTS ON.

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Here is a diagram of DNA cloning.
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So, how does it work?
That is a good question. First, some DNA is
taken from the desired animal. It is placed into
an egg, which is then placed into the womb of a
female of that animal. Next, to get it to start
developing, scientists give it an electric shock.
It develops inside the female, who gives birth
to it, and it grows up to be an exact replica of
the animal from whom the DNA was originally
taken.
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Therapeutic Cloning

• Scientists in the USA have successfully
  transplanted a cloned heart and kidney tissues
  into cows without having them rejected.
• The researches, lead by Dr. Robert Lanza at
  Advanced Cell Technology in the USA, said that if
  it is the same as the human tissue, then it
  brings the prospect of new treatments for
  incurable diseases- so- called therapeutic
  cloning, one step closer.The goal of therapeutic
  cloning is to take a cell from the patient and
  grow nerve, muscles, or cartilage to replace worn
  down tissues. But the main question is whether
  cloned tissue really is genetically exact to that
  of the patient if not it will be ejected.
• www.bbc.co.uk

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Reproductive Cloning
ON MEDIA REPORTS, THEY USUALLY JUST TALK ABOUT
ONE TYPE OF CLONING, WHICH IS CALLED REPRODUCTIVE
CLONING. IT MAKES A GENETIC TWIN OF THE ORGANISM
IN QUESTION. THOUGH THIS TYPE IS MOST COMMONLY
KNOWN, WE FEEL THAT IT IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF
ALL THREE KINDS. IT COULDNT REALLY BE USED FOR
ANYTHING MEDICALLY. WE SUPPOSE IT COULD BE
USEFUL IN SOME WAYS THOUGH IF YOU WANTED TO MAKE
A REALLY STRONG ARMY, LIKE IN STAR WARS, YOU
COULD TAKE A REALLY GOOD WARRIOR AND CLONE HIM OR
HER MANY TIMES. ALSO, IF YOU HAD A REALLY GOOD
SHEEP, OR PIG, OR COW, THAN YOU COULD CLONE THEM
AND THE GENERAL QUALITY OF MEAT AND DAIRY WOULD
IMPROVE.
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Dolly the Sheep
The most famous - and certainly one of the most
successful - attempts at reproductive cloning is
Dolly the sheep. Ian Wilmut was the scientist
in charge ofthis cloning. They had to try
times until they were successful. Even then,
Dolly only lived 6 years. So you see, cloning
needs many more years of study. People need to
concentrate more heavily on it.
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Dolly
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Cloning Extinct Animals Humans
What do you think? See Our Opinion
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Want to know our opinion?
We think it would be really cool to bring extinct
animals back. Only certain ones though, because
it would be pretty bad if we brought back an
animal whos habitat had been destroyed hundreds,
or thousands of years ago. Wooly mammoths are an
example. They lived in the ice age, so the
surroundings would be extremely different, and
for a predator, such as the wooly mammoth, food
would have changed over the years.
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A scientists opinion
We asked a scientist from the Jackson Laboratory,
to see what he thought. Here is what he said.
Generating human clones is not something that
scientists should be involved in, having an
identical twin does not seem to be troubling to
people since they are each treated as individuals
with full right in our society. A big ethical
dilemma for human cloning seems to be what
purpose would the human clones be used for. Would
they be treated as unique individuals with full
rights or would they serve as a source of spare
body parts and organs for you as you got older? I
think everyone would agree that generating
humans(by whatever means) without equal rights is
unacceptable.
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You might not notice, but there are human clones
in your everyday life. But they werent made in a
lab... No. They are identical twins, created
naturally.
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When our body has something foreign placed in it,
it will, no matter what, reject it. But if we
cloned something alike to our cells, or exact,
the body would greet it as if it were the real
thing. That that would mean, if you have a bad
gene, you could replace it without it having
being rejected. If you had a terrible burn on
your body, you could clone the skin, and replace
it with a clean layer. If you had diabetes, (if
you had it, your pancreas cant make insulin, )
then you could clone cells, and cure your
pancreas.
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Dr. Greg Cox
Dr. Mimi de Vries
Thanks To...
Special thanks to the following individuals Give
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The End