CLONING CLONING
AABody BodyDouble Doubleor or Double DoubleTrouble? Trouble?By Dennis Di Mauro
One moral question
that has recently received a great deal of publicity is the issue of cloning. Is cloning ethical? What’s wrong with using cloning to conceive a child, or to find cures for diseases? First of all, what is cloning? Cloning is the process where a woman’s egg, or ovum, has its nucleus removed and has the nucleus of a cell of another person, usually the nucleus of a skin cell, implanted into the empty egg.This process "conceives" a new living embryo (baby) that starts to grow rapidly after the skin cell nucleus is inserted into the egg. Cloning starts in the laboratory, and the embryo can then be placed into the uterus of a woman where it will grow into an infant, who then is born in the normal way.The newly born child will be a genetic duplicate (or twin) of the donor of the skin cell. What are the types of cloning? Cloning is usually separated into two types: reproductive and therapeutic.
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