Reality Check The ability to cheat death and despair has always been a distant dream in the far-off future. ... Some values examined in this film include scientific progression, animal cloning, immortality and nature. ... The concept of animal cloning is touched upon when Adam's dog, Oliver dies due to a mysterious virus. Several filmic codes are used during Adam's visit to the Re-Pet store to convey a positive outlook and attitude towards animal cloning. ... This presentation of animal cloning generates a positive attitude as most people today have at least one cherished pet ...

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However, "The world was shocked in February of 1997 when British scientist, named Ian Wilmot announced that his research team successfully cloned lamb named dolly from an adult sheep at the Roselyn Institute in Scotland".(1) For what seemed like a dream for many years quickly turned into reality. ... However, others would argue that animal rights are violated when doing research and testing on animals. ... It has been successfully carried out for years on many species of animals. ... Second, adult DNA cloning is a technique that produces a copy of an existing animal; it involves removing the...

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The first type of cloning started with plants then animals and now Humans. ... Adult cloning cannot ethical be used to produce a human clone, because experiments on animals have sometimes produced defective specimens." ... Take animal cloning for instance, which is very beneficial to the human race, such as Dolly who was created for medical purposes. ... There is also hope in creating animals such as pigs and cows with human protein genes to save human being lives. ... In addition, couples that are longing for children shall be able to fulfill their dreams. ...

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""You"d have to be crazy not to see the bad results they've had in animals," Randolfe Wicker, founder of the Clone Rights United Front, a group in New York City that promotes human cloning says. ... That's the question posed by outraged cloning researchers, who point to an abundance of evidence that cloning adult animals both endangers the mother and can lead to unacceptable defects in the offspring (Boyce 42). ... Much of the previous practice on animals has been disastrous and unexpected. ... His dream is to clone himself, repair his clone's genetic defect, and give him the...

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Some animals have tremendous powers of Regeneration. ... Another type of asexual reproduction found in all animals, human beings included, is the formation of identical twins, triplets, and so on. ... This dream or theory has been around for a long time. ...

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It doesn't have a heart, liver, lungs, kidney, or any other internal organs, and it doesn't have a central nervous system, which is what most people consider to be the separation between humans and animals. When it dies, the embryo is clearly not human, it is merely a collection of very special cells, less complex in architecture than almost any animal on earth. ... The only way to get around this would be to use eggs from other animals, this is currently being investigated with rabbit and cow eggs although no breakthroughs have yet been made. ...

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Cloning which was once a dream of the past might be the way of the future. ... Cloning could be used to increase the population of endangered species of animals and thus save them from total extinction. ...

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Consequences of Cloning Humans When thinking of cloning, many people only consider the exciting realm of possibilities. Just imagine, defying death: cloning yourself and having the ability to live forever. Or how about "designing" the perfect child or even duplicating a lost loved one. Parents ...

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