Where to go with Cloning?

            Is cloning actually possible? What exactly does cloning do? Could we actually clone people? Those are a few of the questions that come to mind when people think of cloning. Also when people think of cloning they think of the movies where aliens are cloning each other to take over the earth but, are it actually possible to make an exact look alike of a human or animal? Through scientific discoveries it is actually possible.

            The movies are usually what make peoples impressions of cloning, but do we really know what cloning is? Defining cloning is pretty simple; it is creating an exact look alike organism of something else, making it exactly the same in every way, even its DNA. Around the world scientists in laboratories have successfully cloned different organisms; in the past scientists have cloned large and small animals. Some of those animals include cows, goats, pigs, rodents, sheep, and even house pets. By seeing how many different animals we have cloned people would wonder why we don’t clone humans. But there are more dangers to cloning than we ultimately thought to be.

            Throughout the world many experiments have been done that have given us many interesting statistics about cloning showing why attempting to clone humans would just not be safe. For example after being born many cloned animals don’t live nearly as long as the original animal due to an infection or problems. About 90 percent of cloning attempts don’t give a clone in perfect condition. Also some clones get a disease called large offspring syndrome, adding up that we haven’t done enough safe, successful experimenting, leads us to not take on the task of trying to clone a human at this point in time. 

            Cloning people does not seem to be in the question right now but scientists have been working on possibly a very interesting yet controversial project. Recently scientists have found well preserved remains of mammoths in the tundra of Russia, also they have the DNA. Scientists have had the plan to possibly clone a mammoth and bring it back to life after 50,000 years of extinction. Many people though do not like the idea of cloning an animal that has been extinct for that long. The possibility is still there but a lot of people believe that if we have a hard time protecting the animals we have on earth now, we shouldn’t try to resurrect a mammoth that has been dead for thousands of years.

            Scientist have continued their experimenting with cloning and have cloned quite a few animals but there are still a lot of questions yet to answer. In time will the government try to clone humans?  We don’t know yet but in time a lot of these questions will probably be answered.