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.
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