CLONING

Cloning: the Way to Perfection



Cloning: the Way to Perfection

Introduction

Cloning is a method of genetic engineering in which an identical genetic “twin” is produced asexually (without joining egg and sperm). This “twinning technique” is attained by taking an unfertilized egg from an adult female and eradicating all of its genetic information-containing DNA, leaving it an empty egg set to carry growth. A cell is then eliminated from the adult to be cloned and is raised in a growth medium planned to “turn off” its particular genes and make it think it is an embryo cell. This donor cell is fused electrically with the egg cell, and the unnaturally fertilized egg begins to split into an embryo. Transplanted into the womb of a surrogate mother, the egg expands and brings about an off-spring that is hereditarily identical to the organism that donated the cell. This paper discusses if cloning is the way to perfection or not.

Discussion

Cloning has been a question for many time and yet it is a huge problem these days. It is a very complex procedure that several individuals consider is as acting as god. Persons who are in favour of cloning consider it as a superior technique to make human perfect. Though, it is felt both parts are excessive. According to me, cloning must be permitted but only if the leadership of the country supports it so both sides could be persuaded. In order to understand the question that cloning is in fact the way to perfection or not, two things must be understood. First, the meaning of cloning and secondly the history of it.

The most often-stated reason for understanding the human genome is the avoidance and treatment of disease. Some terrible diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, cancer, diabetes, and schizophrenia, carry a genetic tendency. As, since a parent has the gene for cancer, he or she might pass it on to a child, which in turn would give that child a genetic predisposition (though not a genetic certainty) to develop cancer, the likelihood of which would depend on other health and environmental variables. Recognizing the existence of these genetic predispositions can help doctors treat—perhaps even eliminate—some terrible diseases. Such treatment is called gene therapy. (Campbell, 2006)

Gene therapy is a method of “treating diseases derive from adjusting the face of a individual's genes toward a therapeutic goal”. By correcting a disease at the level of DNA molecules, gene therapy attempts to compensate for the abnormal genes. There are 02 kinds of gene therapy: germline gene therapy and somatic gene therapy. Germline gene therapy deals with adjusting gene cells so that only particular features are passed on to offspring. Research in this part is more morally vague and is less extensive. Somatic gene therapy controls gene expression to help the patient, but does not extend to maintaining the correction for any of the patient's future descendents. This is the kind of therapy pursued by most laboratories. (Wilson, 2005)

Gene therapy engages a kind of cell called ...