Introduction
Imagine being a clone whose only purpose was to give up life for another. Scientist at the Roslin Institute in Scotland developed a way to make a clone from an adult cell. The clone produced was Dolly the sheep. The way they cloned Dolly is that they took the nucleus of an udder cell from a white sheep and put it in a solution that stopped it from growing but kept it alive. The nucleus almost had all of the sheep’s genes. They then took an unfertilized egg cell from a black sheep that had its nucleus removed. They fused the nucleus from the white sheep and the egg of the black sheep together using electrical pulses. They kept it under surveillance to see if it would grow and develop normally. Then they implanted the egg into another black sheep. Dolly was born white. It had taken scientist 277 tries to clone a sheep, and Dolly was the only one born. Although this process would not be used to clone a human since it will be a much more difficult task. Scientists should not continue to research cloning because clones would not have rights, clones have a higher risk of disease, and one disease could kill an entire race, even though some argue it would help to save people’s lives. This site will provide the points as to why people oppose to cloning. It will explain the effects of cloning on the ethical, scientific, and environmental levels.