The Pros And Cons Of Reproductive Cloning

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Reproductive cloning is the process of genetically duplicating an existing living organism, however all experiments were done on animals.
More than 18 mammals have been cloned, however there has been no experimentation with human cloning.
The first animal that was cloned was Dolly the Sheep in 1996. More recent experiments followed for example, Dewey the Deer.
In 2003, the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine cloned the first white-tailed deer known as Dewey. He was cloned from tissue collected from skin cells extracted from a deceased deer.

The most common cloning technique is known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The process entails replacing the nucleus of an egg cell with the nucleus of a body cell. This creates