Sunday, April 6, 2014

Bullet Point #8

Molecular Cloning

Dear David W. Russell

I feel that cloning is a good way to further biotechnology. Biotechnology shouldn't be used on people; we don’t need to mess with nature. Even if we know how to clone humans, it shouldn't be done. It may be needed in the future, who knows what’ll happen to the human race. If this gets out of hand people will start to make clones of themselves and other things to use it for evil or inappropriate purposes. 

Cloning has four steps. 
  1. fragmentation - breaking apart a strand of DNA
  2. ligation - gluing together pieces of DNA in a desired sequence
  3. transfection - inserting the newly formed pieces of DNA into cells
  4. screening/selection - selecting out the cells that were successfully transfected with the new DNA









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