Cloning is vital in American society because it will help us advance our knowledge of genetics. Cloning will also make us realize how much scientists can actually accomplish by knowing how to clone. Scientists successfully cloned an animal in 1997. This feat made all of scientists' theories about cloning possible. This gave scientists hope that one day they might be able to clone a human because they successfully cloned a mammal. Eugenics is also vital to American society. Eugenics is the practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population as a whole. Cloning plays a huge role in science. It's all about genetics, DNA, and what humans can do to further our knowledge of human anatomy. Not everyone agrees with cloning and eugenics, as some scientists do, which causes a lot of controversy. Spearmann saw cloning as a way to study cell differentiation. Briggs and King used the nuclear transfer technique on amphibians and it was successful (Campbell). “Subsequently, John Gurdon demonstrated the potential to reprogram differentiated cells by producing adult Xenopus using epithelial cells from the developing tadpole gut as nuclear donors,” explains Alberio Campbell. Unfortunately, later studies show that this method of cloning tadpoles did not allow them to develop to the adult stage (Campbell). “The use of enucleated metaphase II oocytes as recipient cytoplasts proved more efficient and resulted in 1986 in the production of live lambs using blastomeres from 8- to 16-cell embryos as nuclear donors,” explains Campbell . This success in sheep has also been used in other mammals such as cattle and pigs. There were limits to the technology. First, "the change in frequency was very small"....... middle of paper...... caust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council -United, June 10, 2013. Web. April 7, 2014. .Ricci, Mariella Lombardi. "Assisted reproduction and its relationship with genetics and eugenics." "New Beef: Animal Cloning And Its Impacts." Brown Journal Of World Affairs 14.1 (2007): 111-119. Academic research completed. Web. March 21, 2014. United States. The ministries of administration, cultural resources and health and social services. Executive Order 83. Governor's Task Force to Determine Method of Compensation for Eugenics Council of North Carolina Victims, August 2011. Web, April 7, 2014. Wade, Nicholas. The New York Times, October 13, 2013. Web March 21.. 2014.