Cloning

Daniela Leguisamo Jonathan Science B-day 7/8 1-19-12

**__Cloning__** Have you ever thought about cloning? Another you roaming around the world? Would you like to be cloned? Well, a sheep, Dolly has been successfully cloned but never humans. Clones are exactly the same as the person cloned and share the same DNA. But there are consequences and benefits to cloning. Clones can suffer from diseases, die young and not be able to lead a normal life. Also if I clone myself, I won’t be one of a kind. If I had the option to clone myself, I wouldn’t do it. There are many consequences to cloning. You might think it’s great to have a clone, but its not. The clones can suffer in many ways. Most clones can suffer premature aging. This means that even though the clone will have a young appearance, it will have the genes of an older person, which may carry a disease like arthritis. This also means that the clone can die at an early age like 12 or 25 depending how old the original person was. Like Dolly, who died at a young age because of a sickness found in older sheep. To clone a sheep, it took scientists about 300 tries to get one right. Imagine humans being tested 300 times to just get one baby to look like and be like a normal human. A lot of human genetic material would be wasted because of us trying to clone each other. This would cause more humans to die and to be caught with diseases at a young age. More consequences to cloning include having a normal life. The clone would have a hard time leading a life without parents, friends and family. Since a clone is a copy of someone, they won’t really have any real parents. Most kids would probably tease the clone because of its “abnormal” life. Then the clone won’t really have any friends or family to share holidays, special events or anything else with. Also since my clone is a copy of me, I won’t be one of a kind anymore. “Everyone is unique in their own ways”, however with a clone, that saying will be no more. If everyone in the world had a clone, there would always be another of that person somewhere else in the world. This proves that cloning yourself is not the best option for you or for the clone. Although cloning yourself is not good, many people think of the “up” side instead of the “down” side. First thing that comes to mind for most kids is to make it do their H.W. Of course, your clone will be able to do that and other things too. Like do your chores, play with you, go to school for you, do your H.W and the list can go on forever. Many scientists and other people think about clones for scientific reasons. These people have look at the opportunity of cloning organs. This will serve for people with a failing kidney, heart, lung, etc. This way instead of people donating their organs, doctors can use the cloned ones. Doctors can use cloning for cures, transplants, operations and more. There are many good reasons for cloning that can help us in many ways. Even though these things can benefit us, they can also harm us. If I had the option to clone myself, I wouldn’t do it. There are many chances that the cloning can go wrong. My clone would even share my same DNA so then I won’t be one of a kind anymore. There are many things a clone can and cannot do. Even though most people would love to clone themselves, they only think of the opportunities not of the consequences that come with cloning. Cloning has been something that has been tried all over the world, but has not been so successful. Cloning can be a fun idea, but it is dangerous too.