Cloning What is Cloning? Cloning is the production of one or more individual plants or animals that are genetically identical to another plant or animal. Nature itself is the greatest cloning agent. In about one of every 75 human conceptions, the fertilized ovum splits for some unknown reason and produces monozygotic (identical) twins. Each has a genetic makeup identical to the other. Two very different procedures have been referred to as "cloning": · Embryo cloning has been …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 868 total…Produce new heart cells for people with bad hearts There are also disadvantages of cloning, they are: · Taking God’s work into our own hands · Have an impact on the decline in genetic variety · If we ever lost the ability to clone, we would have to resort to natural reproduction, causing us to inbreed, which could be disastrous · If everyone had the same genetic information, one disease could wipe out a whole population Bibliography None