You are only cloning the physical looks, not the brain and personality. ... Hundreds are needed for one successful clone" (Heaf, Lists of Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering) Tests have shown that cloned animals show rapid signs of aging and will live a shorter lifespan than that of the original. ... He/She would be kept in a room for testing his entire life. ...
One common misconception people have when it comes to cloning is that the clone is not an exact copy of there personality, it is just the genetics. ... Experts have said that twins would be more alike than a clone would, personality wise. ... There needs to be many more years of animal testing before NST (nuclear somatic transfer) can be tried on humans. ...
Then they would transfer the memories and also transfer the personality of the existing human into the clone. ... This would make the person immortal as memories and personality could be continuously placed into a new body, they would never cease to exist. ... Melatonin is a hormone produced naturally by your pituitary, but rigorous testing of melatonin's effects on human beings has not been done yet. ...
The factors that determined his personality are no longer in place. ... Are we willing to risk one mutation in human testing? ... Objections to cloning are similar to objections raised against previous scientific achievements, for example, heart transplants and test-tube babies, that later came to be widely accepted. ...
Cloning Is cloning ethical? The majority of the world would say no but the medical research possibilities associated with it are endless. In 1997 when Dolly the lamb was born we began to think, "Wow if it's possible to clone an animal why not a human in the futur...
In addition, it took over a year for the institute to test Dolly's DNA to make sure that it was, indeed, the same as that of the frozen mammary cells (Gedney 138). ... Genetics alone does not entirely define a person and the personality (Cloning 4). ...
They included trust that selective breeding and choice of genetic traits is an effective means of improving the overall quality of the human species, the conviction that heredity directly determines physical, physiological, personality, and mental traits in adults, and a belief in the inherent inferiority of some races and social classes and superiority of others (Allen). ... Various states have also proposed legislation banning further testing or research into human cloning (Stolberg). ...
