The Clones Are Coming!

Are you one of them?

Cloning started in the form of a sheep named — Dolly: The first exact genetic duplicate of an adult mammal. Since then, cloning leapt to the world of reality from science fiction.

Dolly was created from deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. This is the basic unit of heredity that was taken from a single adult sheep cell. Is this really an accomplishment? If this is an accomplishment, did it open the door to the potential uses and abuses of cloning? Including the possibility of cloning humans?

I remember the movie “The Sixth Day”, A father or should I say a family man comes home one night to discover that his life has been stolen by a clone. This is what I’m afraid of, if this technology — Human Cloning — falls into the wrong hands.

There are endless possibilities in cloning. This is most beneficial in medicine. Imagine that a scientist can clone an exact copy of a man to provide, for example, a bone marrow, to one who is afflicted with leukemia.

Other scenarios range from the obvious to the foolish. Just come to think of it, women giving birth to babies without needing to know the father. There would be virgin births!

A lot of NBA teams would choose cloning to draft their players. Imagine this, cloning five copies of Kobe Bryant to make a basketball team! hahaha

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