2007-01-10 08:32:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Edward J. has it.
Nothing is 'wrong' with cloning (nature does it all the time - i.e., twins and various cellular process.), except for the cause it's usually used for. (plus the whole controversy about 'creating a person' raises ethical issues)
But aside from ethical issues, the main problem with artificial cloning is that the DNA is a near-exact replica, but in order to have a whole, healthy being, you need something plus the replicated part - a whole other section of DNA (in nature, this comes from the other parent). One reason Dolly the Sheep didn't live as long...
2007-01-10 09:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by creative writer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing is scientifically wrong with cloning. on the othe hand the moral view. when you clone you take cells that are in the embryo(embronic stem cells). These cells are considered the begining stages of life. according to religion (christian) humans would be trying to take over Gods place by interfearing in the process of life. On any other viewpoints it is very unsuccesful, less that a 1 percent chance of sucess for cloning, and costs a lot for funding.
2007-01-10 17:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by hunklov3r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people believe that if scientists were to clone an entire human then the clone would not have a soul because it was created by humans....you cant duplicate a soul because it can't be man made. Many believe people that this would be trying to play God and that humans have no right to do so.
2007-01-10 16:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by Lindsay H 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wrong? You are cloning all the time.
2007-01-10 16:35:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you meen? There is nothing wrong with it....its just a process scientist use to clone things.
2007-01-10 16:34:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's expensive and the clone will have the same genes as the origional. Therefore, they have the same problems and such as the origional.
ex. If cloning people, you would have problems identifying who did a crime.
2007-01-10 16:39:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like six more clones of me, so that I can send one out each day of the week to work, and the others would just hang out at home and watch cartoons, hopefully clean the house.
2007-01-10 16:38:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
How many of them will you be killing in order to get one that lives? Who will own them the scientists? The government. What do we need them for a slave race? Im not sure what people would want them for other than to exploit for our own purposes.
2007-01-10 16:43:43 · answer #8 · answered by Edward J 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think their is anything "wrong" with the idea. Just when we let this idea control us. What are we really going to gain from it?
2007-01-10 16:40:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think about the all of the a**holes out there - do you really want more of them?
2007-01-10 16:35:01 · answer #10 · answered by Joe S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋