The Is The Greatest Technological Age Yet - 2237 Words

We are the greatest technological age yet. Which means we are going to make things that were only dreamed of years ago. One of these dreams talked about long ago and still today is cloning -making an exact identical match of something- in the book Jurassic Park they show this with dinosaurs taking DNA from bones and eggs and creating an exact match. Although the book showed how terribly wrong this could go it also exemplifies how great cloning can be. The book starts with an entrepreneur with a dream, so they take an island way off the coast and use scientists to experiment with cloning DNA to make dinosaurs this eventually works and they build a park or an attraction where people can come see these creatures and learn more about them†¦show more content†¦They started with the idea of cloning and everything in the book would revolve around this throughout the book. To show that this is an issue they took a bad side effect of what could’ve happened if dinosaurs were created and held for attraction. Although dinosaurs being cloned still sounds unrealistic says someone on the learn genetics website located in Utah (learn genetics, 2). cloning has begun on mammals such as the first mammal ever cloned and it would be named dolly the sheep. Dolly would later die of causes that were not related to the experiment according to scientists who looked after her. (cloning, 1) â€Å"The real issue is what Dolly died from, and w hether it was linked to premature ageing. She was not old--by sheep standards--to have been put down. --Dr. Patrick Dixon, expert on ethics of human cloning. Cloning although may seem simple â€Å"a clone is a genetically identical copy of an organism, and it may be naturally occurring or created in the lab. Through the process of asexual reproduction, organisms such as bacteria (and some plants) create offspring that are genetically identical to the parent.† (cambell, 1). Dolly portrays positive effects of cloning such as testing drug responses. Alternatively, with animals such as chicken and cows being cloned they can be used for food and other medical question they would be almost impossible to solve if we did not have two