Read the article and give your opinion in 200 words. arning As Science Continued

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The article describes about the ethical and moral issues in cloning. Cloning can occur at the level of DNA, at the level of a single cell or at the level of a whole organism. Ethical issues arise only if cloning is done for the whole organism. Those who favor cloning argue that a large scale production of vaccines, organs for transplantation and increase in food production by genetically modified crops are possible only by cloning. But at the same time, the main ethical issue with therapeutic cloning is the moral status of the cloned embryo which is created for destruction. The issues to be addressed in reproductive cloning include low success rate, health hazards to the mother, psychological harm to the clone and altered family relationship. Personally I support cloning if it is used for scientific purposes if it is done without harming the animal.

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