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For years many scientists believed that cloning would never be possible. Until February of 1997, when it was introduced from the biotechnology firm PPL Therapeutics and the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh, Scotland had successfully cloned a Finn Dorset sheep named Dolly. Dolly was born on July 5, 1996. she was named after the country-western singer Dolly Parton. Dolly had the DNA of her source; making her the first mammal successfully cloned using adult cells. Dolly was put to sleep February 14, 2003 after doctors detected lung disease, though she had reached half the life span of a typical sheep. Scientists are now looking to human cloning. Some experts believe that cloning should not even be attempted, and I agree with them. My reason is because think of all the side effects of cloning. Do you really think cloned food is safe for your children to eat?
One of the biggest side effects of cloning is that the technology is still so uncertain. Scientists are still unsure of any genetic mutations that might occur when cloning an animal or even a human. When I refer to cloning I’m discuss all types of cloning from animals to humans. Technology cannot solve everything. When they cloned Dolly, it resulted in the death of many embryos and newborns before they even achieved their success in Dolly. What I mean is that the experiment of Dolly started with 277 fused eggs, of which only 29 became embryos. Then all of the embryos were then transferred to 13 sheep and only 1 became pregnant with Dolly. So even if the human clone survives it’s not guaranteed that it would develop normally or have the same life span as a normal human.
The lost of gene diversity is another side effect of cloning. Gene diversity keeps an entire species from being wiped out by a singular virus if none of them have natural immunities. So this is due to the lack of gene diversity. Gene mutations happen naturally; this is why some people are taller, shorter, or more athletic than others. Basically humans can live on Earth relies on the diversity of genes.
Leading to extinction is another disadvantage of cloning. The reason is if we clone humans then we will all be identical. If everyone has the same type of genes, then this negative effect of cloning would be inbreeding. Since everyone has the same genotype they will continue to reproduce themselves. This will then lead us to our own extinction.
Another side effect of cloning is that there are a lot of ethical considerations and that would cause most people to protest. One of these ethical concerns is that cloning is “Playing God.” When a species begins to tinker with the ways of nature it seals its own fate. Let's say for example that a child learns he or she was a clone. Cloning is taking the work of God into our own hands, and playing God violates every religion in the book. Ethics can be twisted and warped to your liking if you can find a perfectly fine reason to do so. One thing though is, if we don’t carefully question our actions before we make them, then the consequences could be devastating. Everything has a reason, and only God knows what that is. There is a passage in the Bible that talks directly on the issue of men playing God. From Genesis, when Adam and Eve where thrown out of the Garden of Eden for taking fruit from the tree of knowledge and presuming to obtain God’s wisdom.
Another reason is that it will be very expensive and that money could be used for something useful like saving people’s lives and improving quality of life. It could even be used for food for the needy, homeless shelters, foreign aid, healthcare for those without insurance and especially to the schools.
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Your essay right now is very good, but most persuasive essays have a paragraph in which they rebute a point that the opposing team can make. For example, the opposing side can say that cloning food is the only way to feed the hungry if the population still keeps growing as fast as it is now. Then you would have to rebute this argument and say that we could use the money for cloning, and turn it into making new technologies that will make food production more efficient. Just a suggestion, but otherwise your essay is very good.
