Essay Archive - The Human Cloning Controversy
The Human Cloning Controversy
What is cloning and a clone? The dictionary says cloning is the technique of producing a genetically identical duplicate of an organism. A clone is all descendants derived asexually (having no sex or sexual organs; sexless) from a single individual, as by cuttings, bulbs, by fission , by mitosis , or by parthenogenesis reproduction. In general human cloning is the "identical twin of another person" (Vere 1). Science fiction movies, filmmakers, and science fiction authors are still far ahead of the scientists in the r....
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