CLONING. By Mario De Greiff Meraz

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1 CLONING By Mario De Greiff Meraz

2 WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE? In biochemistry (which is a mix of chemistry and biology) a clone is a replicate (a fragment of DNA placed in an organism) so that there is enough to analyze or use in protein production. The purpose of cloning is to make a copy of another life form for a few reasons: 1st to make an army so they could fight and protect the country from a war, 2nd if someone is having to much work, they could copy themselves so their life would be easier, and 3rd for some tricks in life, example; Jonny gets captured by a mad scientist and he is being duplicated in the scientist's lab, then duplicate Jonny is free to go to real Jonny's home, and Jonny's family will see that his son has returned safely from running away from the bullies, however real Jonny is scared and surprised that the clone is an evil copy of him and his parents think that's him the whole time..

3 HERE IS A PICTURE OF TWINS If you're thinking that twins are clones well, you are wrong, some twins may look like clones but one them is born first, then in a few minutes the other is born, it depends on their DNA type and how they look like.

4 HOW DOES IT WORK? Molecular cloning refers to the process of making multiple molecules. Cloning is commonly used to amplify DNA fragments containing whole genes, but it can also be used to amplify any DNA sequence such as promoters, non-coding sequences and randomly fragmented DNA. It is used in a wide array of biological experiments and practical applications ranging from genetic fingerprinting to large scale protein production. Occasionally, the term cloning is misleadingly used to refer to the identification of the chromosomal location of a gene associated with a particular phenotype of interest, such as in positional cloning. In practice, localization of the gene to a chromosome or genomic region does not necessarily enable one to isolate or amplify the relevant genomic sequence. To amplify any DNA sequence in a living organism, that sequence must be linked to an origin of replication, which is a sequence of DNA capable of directing the propagation of itself and any linked sequence. However, a number of other features are needed, and a variety of specialized cloning vectors (small piece of DNA into which a foreign DNA fragment can be inserted) exist that allow protein production, affinity taggin, single stranded RNA or DNA production and a host of other molecular biology tools.

5 BENEFITS/RISKS The benefits of having a clone is that he/she will help you out with a lot of things you ask to do, or it was programmed to do. The risk of having a clone by cloning yourself, is that the experiment could go wrong and you could die by trying to clone yourself or if you have a clone and he/she takes over your life then, everyone that sees your copy will thin that is you.

6 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS When having a clone/clones you may think that they will listen to your every command but some will not and try to challenge you, if you clone yourself and have another copy of you then, the clone will act strange around people and the personality and brain will not be good as yours, also when they are free from being completed and they have to tube connected to their belly button some effects might look disgusting when the clone is sleeping going to the bathroom and any privacy stuff it might be doing, the ethical considerations of having a clone is weird and strange.

7 MY OPINION ABOUT CLONING I say that cloning is a good idea in the future because when there is a war, the people who are joining the war could clone themselves so they have a chance of wining the war, but it will be also a bad thing because the results could go wrong and your copy could do something worse to you and take over your life and all the people that see you will think that is really you when it's not.

8 FUTURE IMPLICATIONS Can you imagine an Earth in the future, let s say 2000 years from now. And there you are! Yes, you or at least an identical version of you, a person with the same genetics, same looks, and similar thinking patterns to yours just doing their daily business. This all happened because you (or someone that loved you) decided that you shouldn t cease to exist on this planet just because you died. Of course, it wouldn t actually be you, because what you are is not only in your genetics, but also in your life experiences, and those cannot be recreated. But it would be your clone, your replica, and he or she might bring your loved ones a little relief from your death. Additionally, it could bring some balm to those that fear death.

9 BIBLIOGRAPHY For this project I copied some of the words in safari for some slides and then made some changes and for other slides I wrote them in my own words. By Mario De Greiff Meraz