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  • Essay / Cloning: harmful or beneficial for society? - 605

    Imagine waking up in a world where you will never see an animal disappear. Endangered animals are non-existent due to the flourishing of all species. All this would be possible thanks to cloning. There are two types of somatic cell cloning and nuclear transfer. Cloning has only existed for a hundred years, at the beginning of the 20th century. Cloning has a very low success rate and is very difficult to perform. Although cloning is a developing study, it carries many risks and few benefits. There are two main ways to clone an organism, artificial embryo twinning and somatic cell nuclear transfer. Although artificial embryo twinning is the most efficient way to clone an organism, it is the most difficult method to carry out. Artificial embryo twinning is a type of cloning, when an embryo at an early age of development is divided into two separate cells. This method is the oldest form of cloning dating back to the early 20th century, when scientist Hans Adolf Edward Dreisch split an embryonic sea urchin cell into two separate cells. It was revolutionary to...