Cloning Perfection?

When it comes to cloning, some say it could help to make the human race “perfect.” But who truly would want to be perfect. I know I wouldn’t, it would be too much to have to deal with. Why would we need to have perfect human beings? Isn’t in our best interest to not have a perfect race so we can learn from all the mistakes we make? I believe it would be the best to not clone anyone just to have the chance of perfection. I know that it has been said that history repeats itself but I would rather have this than having to live a life that was perfection.



It is like these scientists who believe this is the way to achieving perfection and not having to think of the consequences. I think that some consequences that could play a factor into cloning could be the unstableness of how unsuccessful cloning is right now. Since you do not need to have the sperm present during this procedure. Instead you could have two women creating an embryo; all you need is DNA from one and the egg from the other. I could just imagine how “perfection” can be created. Well, not really all I can see is disaster. Like I had said in my last blog I just can’t see how cloning could be okay from when reproduction is more of the correct way in my mind. I feel this could be of the fact that this theory has been tested and proven that this is how human are reproduced.

Is it Really Better?

To what extent does cloning really begin to get “fishy?” I believe it can become fishy once you just bring the subject up because of the simple fact of how unethical most human beings are towards it. It is like creating something from just an egg and DNA. I also feel that in a sense this is very awkward to begin with, only because of the fact that I was taught sperm and cell concept. I don’t understand the whole procedure of not having the sperm present. Maybe it’s like the DNA is the sperm? Even though the experiments on the animals I still feel that this subject is very iffy. Just because some of the animal cloning was successful, what’s saying that if too much cloning had begun, would this cause a down fall or an increase success rate?



I think that whole concept that of which we know is now becoming slightly modified and soon before we know it will be teaching and having children differently. That is to say that the cell division and the DNA could become improved to help the accuracy of the human and mice cloning to be more successful. Maybe then even I would begin to think that cloning could actually have a chance to become more enhanced. I feel that then again it really can’t help mankind, mankind can only help itself to enhance the better of life.

Correction on cloning

One thing I want to make clear is my reason behind writing my last blog on Dolly was to give some facts on how long a cloned animal. I probably should have stated this but in such a hurry I forgot. So, I will lightly talk about Dolly in this blog too. With this case study, she had lived a normal life span for a lamb, even if she was cloned. Also, I misunderstood how cloning really worked and I was wrong how cloning was done. Cloning is actually done by taking DNA from either animal or human and then inserted into the egg of the animal or human. Once the cell has multiplied, or is into a bunch of clumps, it is then implanted into a surrogate mother. This is why I believe I was having a hard telling the two apart.1

Another thing that really amazed me was that dolly had actually lived a full lamb life and died from lung cancer. Could this actually help us to understand that maybe if a lamb that was cloned can live a life like a normal conception of regular lamb, that human cloning to can have a positive outlook? But as research shows, it is too soon for that to be even an outcome. One reason this has been successful for sheep is because their DNA in the nucleus does not utilize until the third or fourth time of cell division. This is helpful because this gives the DNA time to “fix” itself. While for humans DNA is utilized by second division. So, maybe at the time being I don’t think this would be ethical or moral to clone a human.2 My reason behind this is simply because of the fact that our DNA would not be able to fix any problems in the DNA stream leaving some horrific effects after the clone is made or during the process of the clone.

http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/080109-llm-cloning-process.html (1)

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/humclon2.html (2)

Dolly-first successful cloning animal

Throughout the past thirteen years, scientists have tried many tactics to cloning. The first successful cloning of an animal was in Edinburgh, Scotland. They had successfully cloned the sheep known as Dolly. Dolly had been cloned in 1997 and died 2003 from a lung disease. The thing about this is that Dolly had actually died from a natural disease that most lambs’ get. So, is it that there is so much speculation on this topic of if it’s moral or not; if Dolly had actually died from something that is VERY common in most lamb deaths.


It also got me to thinking, what truly is the difference when a doctor “implants” your egg and your husbands’ sperm into you, isn’t in some that too cloning? It too is being done a scientific way to where they still need to “CAREFULLY” do the procedure correctly or it might not be effective. All I know is that these two procedures are quite close when it comes to most of the substances seem to be the same. To create a clone you must need an egg and sperm to create this “clone” of oneself or of someone else. Another question that pops into my head when deciding if this is moral is crossing the line concept. Why is it ethical and moral to have intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) done but cloning is both ethically and morally wrong in most people’s eyes. Could it be that maybe in some ways, ICSI, is just more or less one of things that seem to more typical to the common person as compared to cloning?







http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/apr03/030415f.asp (Dolly link)