LA-C+ 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.

Full speed ahead!

Juliana Arias

Cloning would make people only whant the best farm animal or pet, so that wouldent let a species naturaly improve. this would prevent genetic evolution. Scientists would be able to tamper with genetic matirial, and they could then create mutants.Plus, this also goes againt mother nature. More than 90% americans opose cloning. They would treat clones as abnormalities ( wich, yeah, they sortta are) and this would hurt the clone. Cloning might be used to create a "perfect human," or one with above normal strength and sub-normal intelligence, a genetic underclass. Also, if cloning is perfected in humans, there would be no genetic need for normal humans and that would mean every one would be a brainlessrobot, incapable of thinking for themselfs. Realiability Authors are 3 students from a colege in texas. they have the largest site on cloning.It has 600 pages. It was made in 1998.I think its realiable because they are logical, and use facts, and they are profecional. [] Also, i would like to point out that cloning would not be good for when babies die at birth, because there is a REASON why they died, and if we use clones to reaplace everyonewho dies the earth will be so overpopulated parts of the land will probably sink into the sea. And the people that say that clones could be used for spare body parts and organs ( look at the "pros") well, thats like torturing them. Also if they have no rights thay will be like slaves. And that is NOT good.That would be like house of the scorpion but in real life!!!!! Also if people had to have these body parts it would have to be from a exact clone and 1, they would have to wait many years untill the clonde was mature enough, and by then they would be dead, and 2, what if the clone developed the exact same problem. that would wast both time and money. Isabella Murphy - Cloning might lead to an entire population that is exaclty the same - One desease could make the entire population go away because cloning would make the disease spread faster - Cloning could interfere with natural evolution - Cloning is very expensive - Cloning is very expensive and there is only a 2-3% chance that is would actually work - If people used cloning, there would be no genetic need for men anymore - A person might get upset if he/she knew that he/she was an exact replica of another human Reliability: The author is three students from Texas who got a license for the web by the Lundeen and Associates Society The site is an official production of Kayvon Developments Date: The website was created in 1998 and is updated every year I think that this site is reliable because the three men seem very smart from their information and they have a license to use the internet which a lot of website owners do not. [|http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/reactions/cons.html] ​ Arianna sauter -it is a sin for god because nature must do it insted of people. -cloning is not the natural way -clones are not treated they way they should -it would be thinking that they are god. -they would be using the clone for replacing a part of the person so they could survive - Rumiko Inoue

-90% of the time cloning doesn't work. -clones have more chances of getting infection and tumor growth. -clones die really young -human are different from animals. Animals become exinct and cloning might help, but human population keeps on growing so cloning human is bad because the population will keep on growing.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml Organization: Human Genome Program Date: Monday May 11 2009 You can trust this page because it was recently updated,


 * Lucia P **

Diana
 * It is expensive
 * We should not interference with the nature that created us
 * If criminals clone themselves it could be dangerous
 * http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/54683/cloning_humans_its_good_and_bad_side.html?cat=58
 * Health risks
 * A mad dictator can creat an army
 * Very expensive
 * http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/cloning.html
 * Cloning can fail
 * Scientists predictclones that survive birth will be abnormal
 * The first time they cloned an animal it took 276 tries
 * the majority of the clones die before birth or after birth
 * Humans would have birth defects
 * http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=5242&sec=24&con=4

- Physicians from the American Medical Association and scientists of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are against human reproductive cloning. - Many scientists and physicians think that it would be unethical to try cloning humans.  - Most attempts to clone mammals fail. - About 30% of clones born alive are affected with "large-offspring syndrome" and other debilitating things. - Several cloned animals have died from infections and other complications and scientist would expect the same problems with human cloning. - Scientists do not know how cloning could affect mental development and even thmany problems can ough things like intelligence and mood are not as important on cows, sheep, etc. it is very important on human beings. - Dangerous and ethically irresponsible.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml#problems

I trust this site because they know what they're sating, they also have lots of facts and no opinions. Also because the ending of the site is .gov.

Alejandra A.


 * the succes rate in cloning is really low.
 * many problems can happen during the develpoment of a clone.
 * many cloning expirements have failed.
 * even if some expiremnts in cloning do work, problems tend to happen later.
 * The success rate ranges from 0.1 percent to 3 percent, which means that for every 1000 tries, only one to 30 clones are made.
 * 970 to 999 failures in 1000 tries.
 * may of the clones that are made carry many diseases around.
 * Cloning is very expensive.
 * animals that are cloned and are able to survive, tend to be much bigger at birth, and that could be a problem.
 * the problem with clones being much bigger, it causes the clone to have larger organs and this can cause bad breathing, blood flowing, and other problems that can cause the clone to die.
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 * Reliability:
 * These sites are reliable because the authors are from the University of Utah from the Genetic Science Learning Center.
 * The information was posted on December 12, 2008.
 * These sites are supported by Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.

Eugenia P.

- Some religions think that cloning is a bad idea - out of 277 tries 30 failed to get just one clone made - cloning humans put on risk the ones that are being cloned - Clones die at a really young age [|www.srtp.org.uk/clonhum2.htm] Author: Dr. Donald Bruce Organization: Society Religion and Technology project of the Church of Scotland. Date: November 19, 1998 I think that this website is reliable because a doctor is working on that website, it has a big organization, and it has lots of information that can't be made up

Maite - there are too many humans in the world, more humans or clones would equal disaster - the world cant sustain many more humans -if we start cloning it will be hard to stop, just as what happened when we started using plastic - clones would need all the same things as we do, medication would be needed alot -clones come out with bad health, many hospitals and public healthcare would probably be full because of clones -if everybody could have clones about 50% of the population would double ~this information was taken out of an Encyclopedia