LA-D+Con Human+Cloning



Hello grade 7 students. Welcome to your first wiki assignment!

Each student is part of a pro and con debating team for the question "Should humans be cloned?" You will be using this wiki to share your notes, questions and discussions with your team members. This will be a way to organize yourselves, to consolidate your findings, and to build stronger arguments. You may see the pages of other team members if you wish. This is a good thing as it will be necessary to prepare yourselves for the opposition's arguments. Feel free to read each other's notes, however, please ONLY EDIT THE PAGES OF YOUR OWN TEAM.

Please remember to be respectful of other's opinions and other's work.

 State your name at the start of your notes. P  ick a font color to differentiate yourself form other students. Find ONE reliable website and take notes on the information. Enter your cloning notes on this page. Share main ideas and facts. These should be in YOUR OWN WORDS . No plagiarism! Cite the source : website address, author, organization, dates. Write a couple of sentences explaining why this site is reliable. EACH TEAM MEMBER MUST FIND A DIFFERENT WEBSITE.  You may begin a discussion by clicking on the discussion tab. You may also upload relevant videos. 

Grade: notes - 5 points, reliability - 5 points, citation - 5 points.

Full speed ahead!

​ Sidney Come on team we have to beat the Pros!!! PS We Rock

 Am i in this team??

<span style="color: #32bd32; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nick Wassup people?! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

Hey nick

If you clone a disease might kill the cloned animals because their genectic systems are the same. <span style="color: #a55a12; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="color: #a55a12; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Website #2 <span style="color: #a55a12; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 11pt;"> · Cloning runs the risk of creating a population that is entirely the same. · This population would be vulnerable to the same diseases and one virus could wipe out the whole population. · Cloning may cause people to settle for the best existing animals, not allowing improvement of the species, in this way it would interfere with natural evolution. · Cloning would take away the beauty of diversity. · We have many problems with over population, adding another bunch of people to the world would just increment the problem. · Cloning is very expensive to do; it requires a lot of money and biological skill. Besides, it has a very small probability of working or actually having a successful result that will last. Source: [] <span style="color: #a55a12; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">Website #2 <span style="color: #a55a12; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 11pt;"> · Cloning could affect the clones that are made, and how they think. A clone is a copy of a person, but aside from that, a person acts and is a certain way because of the experiences that he or she would experience. If a person finds out he or she is a clone, it would affect him or her to know that he or she isn´t unique. · Some of the goals of cloning are for transplants. When we create a clone, would they have the same rights? Or would they be used as livestock? Are we not all supposed to be treated equally? A human is a human, even if it is cloned or not. Source: []

<span style="color: #b76a1f; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> P.S. I hope this is good enough. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Miranda 1. Who is typing in blue & brown? 2. My notes<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">: Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact copy (genetic copy) of the other. There are accually human clones on this earth right now. They weren't made in the lab, but in the womb. They're twins! Like my friends, Ella & Talia. But do you think that they would use each other for spare parts? NO! But, on with the notes. When Dolly the sheep was created in 1997, it was amazing! But cloning has been around much longer than Dolly. But how people make a clone (in other words and exact genetic copy of an organism)? There are about 2 ways to do this: artificial embryo twinning and somatic cell nuclear transfer.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Artificial embryo twinning is the low-tech version of cloning. As it says, this cloning is almost the same as the process of creating identical twins. In the real thing, twins are created just after the fertilization of an egg cell by a sperm cell. In some cases, when the fertilized egg, called a zygote, tries to seperate into a two-celled embryo (the twins), the two cells separate. Each cell continues seperating on its own, ending up into two different people inside the mother. Since the two cells came from the same zygote, the final result is naturally identical people. Artificial embryo twinning uses the same process, but in a Petri dish instead of in a mother's womb. This is done by hand, separating a very early embryo into single cells, and then letting each cell to seperate and develop on its own. The resulting people are genetically identical twins!
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ARTIFICIAL EMBRYO TWINNING: **

SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER (SCNT):

A somatic cell is any other cell in the body that is not a reproductive cell (AKA germ cells). In mammals, every somatic cell has 2 sets of chromosomes, but germ cels only have 1.

Nuclear is other words for the nucleus, the brain of the cell. The nucleus has info in the form of DNA.

Transfer is moving something.

To do SCNT, scientists first isolate a somatic cell. Then they transfer the nucleus to a nucleus free egg cell. After a couple of chemical changes, that new egg cell starts to behave like a fertilized zygote. Then it developes into a embryo, and is placed into a surrogate mother.

The difference? In natural creation, the sperm and the egg have 1 set of chromosomes, so the embryo ends up having 2 sets from each parent. But in SCNT, the egg cell's set is removed, but it's replaced with the nucleus from a somatic cell. And when the embryo is made, it has 2 sets from 1 somatic cell. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [] <span style="color: #810081; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Author: Genetic Science Learning Center Organization: University of Utah. Written 12/12/08 I trust this site because they seem to know what they are talking about. There are also no opinions, just facts, and no assumptions. They also have pictures, videos, and diagrams to show what they are talking about.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">P.S. I accually now know some of this... weird... :P

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Lucas Miller

http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/reactions/cons.html

outhor: Kayotic Development Organization: Lundeen and Associates Written: 2000 I trust this site becasue they list mostly facts.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nicholas Keesey [] Author: Studentsites Organization: Studentsites Written: 2000 I trust this site because they list many facts and are a site for students.
 * The cloning of humans may cause harm to the clones because they may think that their future is already decided and that they have no choice but to follow it.
 * Human cloning would also present many risks to the clone. The process has to be perfected before anything can be done right. The main concern is death, for the clone and for the donor. The clone, if it survives, will also have a short life expectancy.
 * Clones will create a disrespect for human life.
 * Clones may also suffer hatred from others.
 * There are no benefits to human cloning and will cause more problems then solve.

Miu [] Author: B.A Robinson Originally published: 2000-Aug-17 Last update: 2005-Oct-29 Notes: Only a few children out of like 100 survive. Cloning hurts woman. There is no danger if you have to make a transplant because they have the same DNA.