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This is a diagram which explains Mitosis:
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The 2nd type of cloning is reproductive cloning which has been done many times but the most famous reproductive cloning was a sheep called Dolly.
And the 3rd type of cloning is called Therapeutic cloning which is making a copy of a cell. This type of cloning is important to people who for example, lost an arm. They can clone that arm and put it back in place so that the body will accept it and won’t think of it as a threat.
To clone a human, you will need a human egg donor and a cell of the person that is going to be cloned. After you get these, you will then have to remove the nucleus from the human egg donor, and you will need to fuse the human egg donor and the cell (of the person that is going to be cloned) together. Then the egg donor will develop into an embryo. You will then need to implant the embryo into the female and she will give birth to the cloned baby. This is called reproductive cloning. This is also asexual reproduction because there was only 1 parent (the female/mother) to produce an offspring.
Figure 5:
Here is a diagram on human cloning:
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There have been many cloning but the most famous cloning was the cloning of Dolly the sheep. She was born on July 5th 1996. She was the first ever cloned animal. She was a copy of a Finnish Dorset sheep. The cell used as the egg donor for Dolly the sheep was taken from the mammary gland (breasts). During her lifetime, she had a lot of diseases such as arthritis and recessive lung cancer. She died on February 14th 2003 at the age of 6 years old. The life expectancy for the sheep of her type was 11-12 years old.
The arguments for human cloning is that if you lost someone (mum, dad, brother, sister etc.) and it can bring the smile back on your face and if you lost a body part or organ such as arms, legs, kidneys etc. Then you can clone them (it will contain the same tissues) and you implant it on/in you and your body will accept it because it’s not an intruder. It still has the same tissues you had since the day you were born so the white blood cells will accept it.
The arguments against human cloning will be that the embryo could be at risk, will receive more diseases, shorter life expectancy, the DNA can change/mutate (so the final result will look different) and it will have a mind of it’s own.
If a person cloned their dead mum, then the cloned dead mum will have a mind of her own. She might hate her children’s, might not remember them and she might not believe that they are her kids. Their cloned mother will be more vulnerable to more diseases (so if she gets a disease and die, the children will cry for her all over again) and she will have a shorter life expectancy.
Factors that stops a person from cloning is religion, ethnicity background and human rights.
People that believe in god will say that god is the only creator not humans. God has sent us here to test us whether we follow what he says or go astray. Therefore we will need to die and go meet him for our punishment/reward. We can’t live the life we got forever, we will need to die and therefore cloning is not a good idea.
Some people also believe that just because they are clones, they do not have the same rights as human beings so they will be treated differently.
People who believe that this life is everything and there is no after will want to be cloned because they don’t believe the after so they might as well carry on enjoying life.
People (Muslims, Christians and Jews) believe that this life is not everything and they believe there is an after life.
God said no one can be a creator unless you fulfil these 3 attributes. The 1st one is to create something from something else. This can be done by human. The 2nd is to create something from nothing. Humans cannot do that and the 3rd one is to program the creation. Can the scientist program a dog so it can talk like a human? Can a scientist program a cat to bark like a dog? NO they can’t. So becoming a creator is impossible.
In the Qur’an it says that humans shouldn’t do things against nature and cloning is against nature.
“Verily, I will mislead them, and surely, I will arouse in them false desires; and certainly, I will order them to slit the ears of cattle, and indeed I will order them to change the nature created by Allah." And whoever takes Shaitan (Satan) as a Wali (protector or helper) instead of Allah, has surely suffered a manifest loss.”
This means that the Satan will order people to change the nature that was created by Allah. So therefore, cloning is an order from the Satan and that means it is sinful and bad to clone.
Based on the information I found, I think human cloning should not be allowed because scientist shouldn’t copy write something if they can’t make something out of nothing and i am a Muslim, so I am going to listen to what Allah (SWT) said about cloning which is bad.
I think the information is reliable because the Qur’an is Allah’s words and the websites (such as Wikipedia and howstuffworks) I used has a good reputation for saying real information.
References:
Dolly the sheep: 02/02/09
Human cloning: 02/02/09
How to clone humans: 03/02/09
Human cloning diagram: 03/02/09
DNA picture: 21/02/09
Chromosomes: 21/02/09
Males chromosomes: 21/02/09
Mitosis:
Islam on cloning: 21/02/09
Quran: Surah: An Nisa: 4: 119
