There are many practical applications of biological knowledge that we mostly accept and take for granted....

There are many practical applications of biological knowledge that we mostly accept and take for granted. Many (though not all) modern techniques in medicine, agriculture and sanitation are examples of widely accepted practices. However, our knowledge about biology has enabled us to do things that raise ethical and social issues. Cloning is one example of such a technology, but there are many others. Choose one such example, then:

Describe the technology.

Describe the ethical and social issues that are raised by the issue, and how you think that society should proceed.

Expert Solution

Cloning is a method used for producing genetically identical individuals and it can be produced naturally or artificially. By using this method copies of cells, DNA fragnments can also be created. In cloning process DNA from one animal(Donor) is taken and inserted into another animals egg cell, then the DNA get duplicated in that egg cell. The newly created embryo is then implanted into surrogate mother, so the newborn will be identical genetic replica of donor.
Cloning caused many ethical issues and social issues, mainly in human cloning. Religious groups made theirown group and opposed cloning hardly, they also placed god inbetween that. Opposing group told that cloning process will destroy human life, they also opposed cloning the animals because there is a chance that cloned animal can suffer from malformation and this can also leads to death. Some group figth against selling meat of cloned animals because they were concerned about food saftey.
Some groups supported cloning, because cloning can act as life saver and they were aware of the advantages of this technology.

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