1. Another Ethical Issue in Biotechnology
cloning
Another Ethical Issue in Biotechnology

2. Read every slide. This information is important
Read every slide. This information is important. There is a Brainpop video about cloning. Watch it.

3. What is biotechnology?
The manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful products.

4. What kind of jobs does this include?
Medical Scientists. ...
Biological Technicians. ...
Medical and Clinical Lab Technologists & Technicians. ...
Biochemists and Biophysicists. ...
Biomedical Engineers. ...
Microbiologists. ...
Epidemiologists.

5. Do you think biotechnology is acceptable?
Ethics behind biotechnology such as:
1. Protecting Human Subjects in Clinical Trials
2. Affordability
3. Privacy
4. Stem Cell Research- religious beliefs
5. Defending the United States Against Bioterrorism

6. Cloning:
Clones are organisms that are exact genetic copies. Their DNA is identical.
Clones can happen naturally—identical twins.
No humans have been cloned, but many animals have. The first cloned animal was Dolly, a lamb.

7. There are 2 types of cloning:
Therapeutic cloning: The use of cloning to produce new body tissues from stem cells, for use in the treatment of disease or injury.
Reproductive cloning: The use of cloning to produce a new genetically-identical human or animal from the cells of another human or animal.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS?

8. Watch this Brainpop on Cloning

10. United States
− Officially, embryonic stem cell research, therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning are legal .
− Not federally funded
− Some individual states have made their own laws against reproductive and/or therapeutic cloning.

11. North Carolina has no Legislation on either cloning or embryonic research.

12. Around the world:
World policies on human or reproductive cloning range from complete prohibition (not allowed) to no policies on record.
Thirty-one countries have banned human cloning altogether.
Fifteen countries, have banned human reproductive cloning, but permit therapeutic cloning.
Many countries, similar to the United States, have yet to pass any official legislation concerning human cloning, thus allowing all types of stem cell and cloning research to occur.

13. Go ahead and answer the question at the bottom of your sheet (your opinion of cloning). You can stop here on the cloning notes. We will listen to the cloning arguments and sound bytes as a class when we review this information.