Cloning is taking DNA from a living person and insert it into a female to create a new child that will have the same DNA as the person who’s DNA was used to create the new child. The clone would be born as a baby, but would grow up to look like the person who’s DNA the clone had.
The difference between Genetic Engineering and Cloning is that in cloning, a person will be created with the exact same DNA as another person. In Genetic Engineering information in the new cell is corrected; the new baby would not purposely have the same DNA as another (they could because nature is the best cloning device, and anyone could have a clone because of nature). So in one, a completely new child is made, while in the other, a copy is made.
Huxley wrote a book in the 1960’s called A Brave New World, which was about things like cloning. People thought that that would never happen – but just see now, his forecast came true! Dr. Richard Seed is a man who desperately wants to make clones. He said that he would go wherever necessary to create clones if the U.S. banned it. He said that he would make many, many clones every year. He is an elderly man in his 70’s.
Dolly was a sheep cloned from a seven year old sheep. Dolly was cloned in 1996. She aged fast because she was cloned from an older sheep, and scientists said that the two sheep would probably die at the same time. Dolly was cloned from a single cell.
I don’t think that Genetic Engineering is a good advancement because it will change everything. We have created a way to make a better human being than ourselves. This is not good because lead to a larger prejudice issue than even skin color. Genetically Engineered children would get into better colleges, get better jobs… Normal children would be the "lesser race" because they wouldn’t be as intelligent, and more likely to die of diseases. I don’t think that Genetic Engineering is a good thing.
I think that cloning can both be a good thing and a bad thing. Cloning is good because you could create a clone and use it to heal the original person’s disease. But then that would mean killing the clone: a real, living human being. That is Stem Cell Research. Cloning is also bad because it would be extremely hard to keep track of people. For example: The original may have gotten into trouble with the police, and the clone could be accused of the crime because they would both share the same DNA, and they would look exactly the same. This could easily happen… or worse…
They planned to raise the mammoth by getting the preserved mammoth DNA into a female elephant to create a mammoth-like offspring. Then, the scientist would put the original mammoth DNA into that offspring. They would repeat this process again and again… until they would have a fully bred, living mammoth.
I do not agree that the mammoth should be brought back to life. I believe this because a mammoth was a dangerous creature that could easily kill several humans. They were a threat to humans in prehistoric times, so what would make scientists think that this time would be any different? They would have it in a special reserve; but still… It may be exciting, but I just don’t see a good reason why scientists would want to bring back a dangerous, extinct creature.
The woolly mammoth became extinct. Why? Well, there are many good hypotheses. It could be that their food was disappearing. Or it could be because of Global Warming, or maybe they were overhunted. We don’t know which of these hypotheses (or if it even is one of these) was what happened because no one from that time period is living to testify, and it is hard to find things from that time period to prove what actually happened.
The scientists in the film wanted to create a mammoth. Actual scientists will probably try to, but creating a mammoth is not exactly an overnight process. It would take many, many years to make a thorough-bred mammoth. It would take so long because it would actually be creating a generation, and then waiting for them to become adult, and then creating another generation… This would go on until they had a fully bred mammoth.
