Has science finally gone too far? I am not sure.
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Joshua Gendron Pro/Con essay CLONING Has science finally gone too far? I am not sure. For years the subject of cloning has captured the imaginations of authors and movie directors. Cloning is the act of creating an animal or even a person that is genetically identical to its "parent." Until February of 1997, the subject seemed farfetched and fictional, because no one really realized how close we had actually advanced in cloning research. There are many pros and cons, including ethical and moral issues. During February of 1997 an embryologist, Dr. Ian Wilmut, announced the birth of a cloned lamb named Dolly. She was the first ever successfully cloned mammal from an adult cell. What Dr. Wilmut did was amazing. He took the DNA from a six-year-old ewe and fused it with the egg of another ewe after removing the second ewe's own DNA. After fusing, the cell began to divide, like...


