I'd love to have a clone of myself so I could send him to work, while I relaxed.
2006-09-14 03:00:43 · 15 answers · asked by DialM4Speed 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Almost certainly. We may find applications where it is advantageous... off-world work?
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2006-09-14 03:04:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Clones to replace us (and go to work in our stead) would have to be created at the exact instant you were. So basically your twin.
Actually though - what are test tube babies but clones? A clone, in the current sense, is a baby created by test tube creation of a being from the dna of another. But the second being is not the same as the first. See Dolly the cloned sheep for how it was done.
Korean scientists do claim to have cloned humans. But this appears to only be to the stem cell level.
No one has managed to move a cloned being to birth. But - it requires an egg from a donor. The nucleus is removed. A cell with DNA from the one to be cloned is inserted into the egg and fused together and the egg is then implanted to grow (in vitro fertilization).
Clones are, by their very nature, unstable. Most don't make it to birth. I believe the rate is 98% end in death. Of those born, many are deformed.
What about the ethics of cloning a person, who is then mentally or physically deformed and handicapped? Do you treat them like the first 266 clones that led to Dolly? In other words, destroy them? Haven't you just committed murder?
Try reading some of Isaac Asimov's stories on cloning. They were quite well written and address some of these issues. See the link - most scientists believe human cloning to be unethical. (Of course, many also believe stem cell research and research on aborted fetuses is unethical. I am not posting an opinion on either, just pointing out viewpoints.)
My opinions - Should we? Could we? Will we? No. Yes. Maybe.
2006-09-14 04:11:37 · answer #2 · answered by Doris B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but they will just be ordinary people. Do you know how many of your friends are IVF children? Probably not. And your grandchildren won't know how many of their friends are clones. For the same reason.
I doubt we will ever see many human clones, for the simple reason that few couples will have reasons to have a cloned baby. But as soon as the technology becomes safe and cheap enough, there will be a few couples (or single women) who for some extraordinary reason will chose to make use of it. I can't get excited about it.
2006-09-14 03:09:50 · answer #3 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Science today has made many aproaches in making animals clones, not only between animals but also mixed breading.
Sheep/Goat.
Lion/tiger
One day if science keeps on messing nature then yes we will see clones.
2006-09-14 05:14:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 22:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think they're aren't clones already? Here in Switzerland we have already quietly produced one person who is living quietly in a Zurich hospital. She is a clone although they say she was a test tube baby only. The plan is to wait until she can marry. Then the resulting child will be the key to a great deal of medical breakthrough.
2006-09-14 03:06:03 · answer #6 · answered by Isis 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
oh sure it can b a day but it has to b someone really crazy as much as u seems . lol
but to have that kind of relaxed life u must now work hard for it . u know one has to pay for everything !!!!!!! isn't it
ha ha haa
2006-09-14 03:42:24 · answer #7 · answered by anna 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am sure China, No. Korea, or So. Africa has done it already; China might possibly do it to harvest organs. It will be like keeping inventories of different types and different kind of organs. If I have to guess, China is already doing it.
2006-09-14 03:07:44 · answer #8 · answered by Morgan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure. The one thing that can stop is it legislation of ethical concerns, but there's little chance of that being legislated world-wide.
2006-09-14 03:07:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will happen but if you are 30 years old, by the time his 30 also you will be 60.
2006-09-14 03:08:55 · answer #10 · answered by DARK 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋