CLONING
all you need to know about
CLONING
Although cloning
brings benefits to human being on medical area and also agriculture field, we cannot doubt
that side effects that potentially occur. Futhermore cloning is still not mature yet and
need further R&D on it. Below are some of the disadvantages of cloning:
Science and technology cannot solve anything. Do we allow human cloning and have we
ever thought of the result of that? Will the result be controllable and will it bring side
effects to the environment and people around? This entire even scientist also cannot
promise that they can. We take Dolly as an example, in cloning Dolly, it resulted in the
death of many embryos and newborn before success achieved.
As mentioned above, in cloning, human will be having identical genes with each
other and animals will be the same with each other also, so as for plants. This means if
one of the species getting attacks by virus or pathogen, others may be not able to defend
against the same kind of disease. Then cloning will lead to a tremendous disaster to the
species that get attack and lead to extinction of the species.
Every species live on earth relies on the diversity of genes. And the diversity of
the genes comes from the both parents that have different set of genes. It is clear that
cloning take the copy genes from same organism. This will cause the lost of the gene
diversity since only identical genes is copied for the cloning purpose.
Since cloning is come from a nucleus donor and an egg cell donor, the embryo will
be implanted into the uterus maybe also from the different donor.
When the child is birth, who will be the parents of the child? This raises ethical
questions to the family and the society itself.
This website is best view
using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above and Mozilla Firefox and resolution 1024 x
768.
The contents of this website are copyright (C) of
Cham Wei Lun and Wong Jun Wei. Any problems or query, please email to
cloning_scb@yahoo.com.my