Cloning???

Question

Cloning is a strongly debated issue in our society.What responsibility do you think the government has to stop,limit or encourage cloning????

Answer 1

Cloning is a rather broad concept. Are you limiting the discussion to animal cloning or do we include plant cloning? We’ve been cloning plants for decades, except that we refer to it as “vegetative propagation.” Are you going to include the commonplace twin animals that occur during the natural process of reproduction? What about parthenogenesis, where an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual, occurring commonly among insects and certain other arthropods? This all has an economic impact on much of our greenhouse/farming technologies. Is this the research to be discussed?

Does your question include the dairy industry using embryo splitting, or blastomere separation (were they tease the eggs apart to produce twins) or just the new 'Dolly' technique; somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)? The technique where the nucleus of a somatic cell is injected into an enucleated egg cell. You wont eat a cloned animal anytime soon. At a cost of about $20,000 each to produce, clones are used for breeding--not for food.
Perhaps the question to discuss then is the FDA who are working to set a policy on cloned animals. Sundlof, an FDA spokesperson says "We do not want these products on the market until there has been a thoughtful, thorough and deliberate evaluation of the issues. We want to make sure that the public is clearly informed and that they have had a chance to participate in the process."
This hasn't stopped the attempt to clone endangered species using SCNT. Advanced Cell Technology's (ACT) researchers and their collaborators fused somatic cells of the endangered gaurs (B. gaurus) with the enucleated oocytes (eggs) from domestic cows (B. taurus). This first cloned endangered animal was reported in 2000.

Are you asking to discuss who should own cloned genes and their potentially marketable products? Procaryotic cloning of specific eucaryotic genes like the human brain-derived neurotrophin-6(NT-6) gene and then to observing its expression in the procaryotic cell in order to create a new drug worth billions?

Ask a more specific question with respect to what aspect of cloning the government is to stop, limit, or encourage or all I can reply will be no, maybe, and yes.

Answer 2

I feel that cloning should be discouraged if it means the death of a living creature. Now, I'm not saying that I disagree with stem cell research, as the debate over whether the embryos that the cells would be obtained from are alive is a whole other area. I think cloning should be completely encouraged if it can be used to improve society and help people, such as finding a cure for disease or being able to grow limbs for people who have lost one. But, I think cloning should be limited ONLY to specific scientific groups who have the resources to now completely screw it up. I can't imagine the effects of people doing "amateur cloning".

Answer 3

Agreed !!! do not they simply clone on and on and on and on. It gets quite tedious relatively. I gave that suggestion to Cheryl B this morning as she replaced into threatening to clone George the purple hippo. Get you own personalities!

Answer 4

Have you ever eaten a banana or potato?
Those are ONLY produced by cloning.

Answer 5

even if cloning in outlawed, people will just go overseas and get what they want. money talks, people walk