Should cloning be allowed? Cloning is on the minds of many scientists today. Many past TV shows and movies have featured some sort of cloning, or at least referenced it. Major research has been done on each type of cloning or the health risks that accompany cloning. Some scientists argue that cloning should not be allowed because it takes a long time and requires mostly luck (NBC News, 2014). Despite the negative criticism that cloning receives from scientists and people, my opinion is that cloning should be allowed and that it will ultimately help the human race in the long run. Cloning is not currently permitted, but should be permitted for medical research, intelligent population growth, and to be available for new scientific discoveries. Cloning does not happen in a one-way street. Cloning can occur in two ways. The first is for cloning to occur naturally. Identical twins are an example of natural cloning. The second cloning option must be carried out in the laboratory. Usually cloning is carried out by an artificial embryo, but sometimes it can also involve somatic cell transfer. The artificial embryo copies the natural way of being able to create identical twins. Artificial embryo matching is carried out in a laboratory in which the egg has already been fertilized by the sperm and will eventually result in diving of the cells. This will eventually create identical twins. This is similar to somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nuclear transfer of somatic cells occurs by removal of the nucleus. Then the fertilized nucleus with sperm is inserted into the enucleated egg. The cell is then programmed again by the host cell, and then after a little while it begins to divide. The cells......middle of paper......cloning being permitted.WORKS CITED PAGEUniversity of Utah (2014). "What is cloning". Center for Genetic Sciences Learning. University of Utah Health Services Online. February 8, 2014. National Human Genome Research Institute. (2012). “Cloning Fact Sheet”. National Institutes of Health. Genome Project. February 8, 2014..MedlinePlus. (2013). “Cloning: MedlinePlus.” National Institutes of Health. United States National Library of Medicine. February 8, 2014..AMA. (1995-2014). “Human cloning”. American Medical Association. February 8 2014..