read the attached files and write your reaction about cloning, consider these question while writing your reaction.Is there a limit or ceiling as to what we can do and should be able to do technologically?

Is this all simply about our dominion over nature our ability to have complete control?

How does this play into our previous discussion of population and resources?

Is cloning simply a response to society’s fear of death and our desire to never have to deal with the loss of a loved one?

Is it reasonable to think that cloning can only be used for good and never for evil?

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1. Compare and contrast the following methods of Cloning:
Embryo Twinning and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
2. How does Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) differ from the natural way of making an embryo?
3. Briefly explain the medical reasons for cloning.
4. List reasons, other than medical, for cloning.
5. What was the first organism to be cloned? How was it done? In what year did this take place?
6. What was the first organism to be cloned using nuclear transfer?
7. How were the first cows cloned?
8. What organism helped prove that cloning could be done using cells from males (up to this point all cloning experiments had been carried out using cells from females)? What was the organism’s name?
9. In what year was the first human clone created and what stage of development did it reach before it stopped growing?
10. Give at least two reasons why a clone might not necessarily be a carbon copy of the donor organism. Name the two animals (they are the same species) that serve as an example.
11. List and briefly explain the risks of cloning.
12. Choose two of the questions raised at the end of What Are Some Issues In Cloning? Write the questions and your responses to them below.

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