Cloning

Human cloning isn't as scary as it sounds. In late February 1997 a British scientist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Dolly was made by replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder. This was an amazing announcement because an animal had never been cloned before. Only plants had been cloned before and everyone thought that it would never …

…a very valuable research tool that will branch off into many new technology. Someday, a human will be cloned. Since the United States government doesn't support research on the human cloning, and the United Kingdom, France, and Germany have banned cloning, the will have to be done in Asia and Eastern Europe. About 80 % of Americans feel that cloning is wrong. However, many people owe their lives to medical advances and cloning is just another one.