The pands bears were becoming less populated each year, and they were on the verge of becming extinct. Scientists have advanced in the technology to clone, therefore they were able to save these innocent creatures by cloining them and their food sources, bam-boo. They are now a flourished species. This is an example of cloning in a positive way because the panda bears could be saved if we advance in cloning mammals and cloning plants that are soon to become extinct. This  could also save animals, like the panda, from starving.

          An evil ruler has taken control of Cuba and does not want anyone to look different, therefore, he hired scientists to advance on the cloning technology. Now the whole Cuban race is short with brown eyes and black curly hair, looking exactly alike! This would be an example of cloning in a negative way because it would be so evil if someone wanted so much power and made people look, act, and do what he wants them to do. This seems unlikey, but in reality there is a possibility that something like this could happen. There are two sides of cloning, and they are not going to be easily compromised, because some think it is good and some think it is bad, both with many reasons.

          A clone is just an exact copy of a living thing. To copy something you need the directions for it to grow, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) which is in every cell of every living thing. DNA  is like instructions for everything about you, from the way you grow, to the way you act. Everypart of your DNA is different than any other living thing's DNA. That's why we are all different. Scientists have advanced in cloning overtime. They have been able to clone plants for a while, then a scientist cloned a sheep. Now that we can clone adult animals, many people are wonsering if  humans are next. In nature, identical twins are clones because the DNA has been copied, instead of two different sets. When there are two different sets of DNA, the kids wont be identical twins, and they aren't natural clones. Also, when a lizard's tail falls off, the DNA for the tail clones itself, and grows anoter tail.

          The inventor of cloning was a scientist at the Rolin institute in scottland named ian wilmut. What wilmut did was take a sheep DNA and egg with nothing in it. then, he put the DNA in the egg, and gave it a tiny shock (so small that an average human vouldnt feel it). After the shock, the embryo started to grow. An embryo is the earliest stage of life. Wilmut couldn't grow the lamb under a microscope the entire time, so he put the egg back into the lamb, and on July 5^th, 1996, Dolly, the cloned sheep, was born.

          After dolly was born, the controversy arose. Many people were wondering what else scientists could do with cloning. Many good things could come out of this. Hereditary diseases are becoming very common, and if a soon to be parent didn't want to risk the life of their child to get a deadly disease, cloning could be the alternative. Also, if a child dies at birth, and the parents wanted him back, cloning could be the solution to their problem. Many endangered species can be saved by cloning them, even extinct species can be cloned, if scientists still have their DNA.cloning could be used for many research reasons as well, such as genetically enhancing livestock, cloning a number of animals for scientific reasons, also just simpily advancing on scientific technology and knowledge. Also, if someone's body kept rejecting organs from donors, scientists could clone the organ and the body wouln't fight it off. Finally, many people own pets and love them so much that they would clone them to have them back.

          But not everyone liked the idea of cloning. Some disagreed greatly with the idea to clone. There could be many negative things that come out of cloning. When scientists experiment, everything is about trail and erroer. When they make a mistake in a normal expirament it is easy to just throw away the results. In cloning, a scientist could make a mistake and the clone is still a person so they cant just trash it. they  would have to live with a mental illness, mutation, disease, etc. DNA is what makes everyone different, right? Well, when you copy it exactly, the clone will look no different or act any different than the person cloned. Every human is unique and if people were cloned, it would make everyone less unique than they really are. There are also many evil things someone could do. Cloning could be used to add more people to a certain race, political party, religion, background, physical appearance,  special talent, etc. to the population because some people are still racist, somepeople don't agree to the other political party, some people want everyone to belive in the same things they do, and so on. Also, if an evil person wanted slaves again, cloning would make this easy to do, expecially in a contry when one ruler has absolute power. Also this ruler could raise the clones to be uncomplaining, robotic sacrifices for something like soldiers. If there was a shortage of people to go into the army, the government could clon thousands to serve in the armed forces and easily win a war.

          Many Hindus believe if cloning is done for good, they agree, but if it is used for the wrong cause, they don't agree. The Islamic views on cloning agree on cloning if it helps a family with their children. Many Buddhists like the idea of cloning because they don't like the idea of individuality. Christians strongly disagree with cloning because they belive that God should be the creator of anything living, expecially humans.

          In conclusion, I don't agree with human cloning because I like the idea of individuality, and having a different fingerprint than everyone else. Also, I would hate to see a country using cloning for all of the wrong reasons, but I somewhat agree on cloning endangered species. I don't want scientists to dirastically change an animal population, because they would all starve. I thing little by little they could add a few clones here and there. Otherwise I do not like the idea of cloning.