PHI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cloning, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, Human Cloning
2 Apr 2017
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Another important distinction has become the starting point for several other moral. There is a difference between genetic repair and prevention and genetic enhancement. If scientist use genetic intervention to make people better than normal, they are doing the latter. To alter a normal person"s genome to increase her intelligence or to make her taller is to practice generic enhancement. The most radical and controversial form of genetic manipulation is cloning. The resulting copy is a clone, and the original material is the clone"s progenitor. Scientists are concerned with three types of cloning (only two of which provoke ethical debate) Dna cloning; involves the copying of particular genes for study. Therapeutic cloning; duplicates human embryos for use in research aimed at the treatment of disease. Reproductive cloning; the genetic duplication of a fully developed adult animal or human. The public outcry over cloning humans is out of proportion to the actual feasibility of accomplishing such a feat.
