e of starved cells are then placed next to each other. Then an electronic pulse causes the egg and the cells to fuse together and a second burst is given to jump-start the cell division. Six days later, the embryo is implanted in the uterus of another ewe. The result of this process will be the birth of a baby sheep, having identical genes as the first sheep from which the cells were extracted from the udder. Although scientists understand most of the cloning process, exactly how the adult DNA changes once inside the egg still remains a mystery. (Nash) Those who support cloning argue that cloning can benefit humanity by contributing to medical and psychological studies, allowing infertile mothers to have biological children, or creating needed organs. Medical researchers may be able to utilize cloned genes to diagnosis genetic diseases. Through cloning, scientists can create hundreds of identical genes and use a trial and error method in experimentation. Using cloned genes in medical research could facilitate a cure for currently "uncurable" biological diseases (Alberta). Others argue that cloning would be useful in solving the nature vs. nurture debate. Psychologists could monitor the effect of the environment on genetically identical subjects and discover how much of their personality was predetermined. The usefulness of this information is questionable however, as most scientists already agree that personality is influenced by both environmental and genetic factors and can study separated identical twins. The exact ratio of environmental to genetic influence on personality would remain hard to calculate. The option to adopt or use another woman's eggs is not a solution for many infertile women who are determined to have a child that is biologically their own. Should these women have the option of creating a clone? Scientists are already pursuing this possibly profitable frontier, which increases the urgency of action f...
