2007-12-10 12:00:48 · 8 answers · asked by Tiko 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I'm guessing maybe 10-20 years? The technology exists, it just hasn't progressed to the point where the clones would be healthy (cloned animals are created from an adult - i.e. an old - cell). The process would need to be more efficient as well, since, as it stands, it would require many human eggs to successfully create one clone.
I'm talking about true cloning, as the technology exists today, not science-fiction grown-in-a-tube clones. To clone an animal, the nucleus from a cell is extracted and used to replace the nucleus of an egg cell. It is then implanted into a surrogate mother, which is given a cocktail of hormones in order to trick her body into thinking it is pregnant and accepting the modified egg. The process would be similar in humans, and would be remarkably similar to in vitro fertilization.
As for ethical issues, I don't see many. The clone would be born as a baby, without any memories of its donor. There would be no ethical dilemma about whether or not clones have rights, since from a human standpoint, it would be born and would grow up indistinguishable from a normally conceived human (just as there's no dilemma as to whether or not people conceived through in vitro fertilization have rights). From a genetic standpoint, there would be little debate as well, since for all intents and purposes, the clone would be an identical twin of the donor, only born from a different mother. When it comes to individuality, the clone would have its own personality, and would probably share similarities with its donor, though wouldn't be identical, since its upbringing and even its embryonic development would be under different circumstances. In the end, a clone would be in all respects, an individual human being, who just happens to share the same genetic sequence as its parent. The only ethical issue I can think of is that of selfishly increasing human reproduction when there are already so many children in the world in need of a good home.
As for a sci-fi clone-in-a-tube, that's a lot farther away, and would raise a lot more ethical questions. We're very close to having the technology to clone humans just as we can currently clone animals, it's just a matter of perfecting the technology.
2007-12-11 06:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by andymanec 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on when the ethical permission is granted. Believe it or not we have the technology already to clone a human. All that needs to be done is the creation of an embryo from which the nucleas is exxtracted and replaced by the nucleus from the cell of the person being cloned
2007-12-10 12:04:58 · answer #2 · answered by Math☻Nerd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's no cloning, its in user-friendly terms for areas no longer an entire man or woman, its a huge dream that scientific medical doctors dream of , they'll never do because of the fact in user-friendly terms God who able to this, to creat man or woman, all people say there is could be a huge lie.
2016-10-11 00:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may have already been created secretly.
We just don't know it because it would cause an uproar and it's illegal.
Oooh.
2007-12-10 12:06:53 · answer #4 · answered by V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proboly in when the time comes that people REALLY want there relitives back at the point which they are willing to pay to get them back or have them reborn aka the extremes
2007-12-10 12:03:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It already has been created
2007-12-10 12:10:15 · answer #6 · answered by alwaysconfused 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hopefully never
the poor clone would just be..a clone
nothing special..
don't do it!-it's bad.
2007-12-10 12:04:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I truely believe that it's already happened.
2007-12-10 12:08:09 · answer #8 · answered by denise m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋