Me and my friends are having a debate on if cloning can actually occur. Yes i know that they have cloned things before but what i want to know is if they have ever come up with real life that never existed before the cloning. Please give me information and facts. I myself never believe we will be able to make life. Because i believe in God and believe that he is the only one who can make life. If you agree with me please leav me the name of a website where i can learn more.
2007-12-20 10:21:06 · 3 answers · asked by Chelsea D 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Cloning cannot produce different *kinds* of living things that didn't exist before. The clone has exactly the same DNA as the organism that it was cloned from, so it will be exactly the same kind of organism.
Cloning has produced individual organisms that didn't exist before the cloning. So when they cloned a sheep to produce the one they called Dolly, Dolly didn't exist before the cloning, but she is still a sheep. And Dolly was identical in DNA to the sheep that provided the nucleus.
2007-12-20 10:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make life?
it happens constantly when new babies are born,
cloning is just this process occuring in an artificial environment, there is nothing anti-god about it.
Cloning can definitely occur because it has happened many times! I clone bacteria every day! They are most certainly alive as well.
Identical twins are genetically clones of each other, if you think that identical twins are not individuals with their own "souls", you are most certainly wrong! (as a twin myself)
2007-12-20 10:27:37 · answer #2 · answered by mountainpenguin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I understand your question, then the answer is that it will almost certainly happen some day, but it hasn't happened yet.
The closest thing I know to what (I think) you're asking is Craig Venter's efforts to create a synthetic chromosome (which he's done) and use it to replace the 'natural' chromosome of a bacterial cell (which he hasn't done, yet).
The result would certainly be considered a new species of bacteria. As far as I know, they haven't yet proven they can do it, but they appear to be close.
People have also made certain simple viruses using entirely chemically synthesized materials. But these weren't brand new viruses, just synthetic copies of known viruses.
2007-12-20 13:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by qetzal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋