Cloning and Why We Should Stop It!




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What Is Cloning and the History of Cloning
How Cloning is Done by Artificial Embryo Twinning and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
How the First Animal Cloned "Dolly"
Recombinant DNA Technology or DNA Cloning
Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
Pictures of Different Types of Cloning
Medical Problems
Problems During Later Development/ High Failure Rates
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of Cloning
The Risks of Cloning
Arguments Against Cloning
Question that might just change your mind about Cloning
Cloning your own Mouse
Cloning Quiz # 1
Cloning Quiz # 2
References

Problems During Later Development/ High Failure Rates

The problems during later development are:

  • Much larger at birth (large offspring Syndrome)
  • Very large organs
  • Breath problems
  • Blood flow problems
  • Kidney malformations
  • Brain malformations
  • Impaired immune system

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High Failure Rates:
  • Somatic Cell Nuclear transfer is inefficient which means for every 1000 tries only 1 - 30 clones are made (970 - 999 failures in 1000 tries).
  • The egg and nucleus are not right for each other causing  failures
  • Egg might not divide or developed properly
  • Implanting the embryo into the surrogate mother could fail
  • Pregnancy could fail
  • Most of the eggs died without dividing once.
  • Many embryos die with in five days

 

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