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What would you consider to be your ideal child? Would it be a boy or a girl? Would it be athletic, intelligent, charismatic, goodlooking, popular, friendly, ambitious? Would it be healthy; resistant to AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer's? Would it be gay or straight? Fat or skinny? What color skin would it have? Would it be aggressive or shy? How long would it live? Would it be an exact copy of you? Are these all questions you want to know the answer to? Geneticists are saying you may soon have the option to genetically engineer or clone your child. But is this the right thing to do? Should we really be messing with the genetic makeup of other humans? Should questionable practices such as human cloning banned by legislation? Today I will be discussing some recent advancements in genetic engineering and cloning, the heated debate surrounding the advancements, and the reasons why research into these fields should continue and intensify. This past year, significant advancements have been made in the fields of genetic engineering and cloning In February, 1997, Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep from adult sheep DNA. Dolly, as the sheep was named, was created by removing DNA from an adult sheep, mixing it with another sheep's DNA, and inserting it into "hollow" eggThe result was a child that carried none of the traits of the sheep that physically gave birth to her.Thus, Dolly was a clone of her genetic parents.Soon after Dolly was born, several American scientists created cow clones and had begun cloning humankind's closest relatives, monkeys.
Approximate Word count = 889
Approximate Pages = 3.6
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