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Cloning | Sarina C | TEDxYouth@LCJSMS


welcome to 2017 don’t know a sheep is
walking into a bar the Sheep drinks his
fill then leaves two minutes later the
exact same sheep comes back in puzzled
the bartender hands the Sheep the same
drink what happened we will get back to
that in a little bit now I want you to
think back when you were wearing
scrunchies overalls crop tops and
friends and full house were still making
new shows yes the 90s during that decade
a movie came out that you may be
familiar with Jurassic Park now try to
think about the scene in the auditorium
where Richard Attenborough is explaining
how his character created the dinosaur
and if you didn’t know he didn’t
necessarily create the dinosaurs but he
cloned them by using blood from that era
and duplicating its DNA likewise a movie
called Gattaca predicts the future if we
continue using genetic engineering the
big movie is based on a nationally born
man across the face and discrimination
from the genetically modified
superhumans around him including his
brother no one cares if you’re black or
white but when your DNA says about you I
don’t know about you but personally I
wouldn’t want to live in a society where
all of my decisions are based strictly
on my blood and not my preferences and
those are both fictional movies I mean
we have no idea what life would be like
if we did continue genetic engineering
or cloning in real life would people
become genetically genetically modified
would we start seeing dinosaurs locked
up in cages at the Bronx Zoo and that’s
when I said enough with whatis and I
wanted answers that’s when I knew I want
to learn more about what the future of
cloning would provide for the world I
was lucky enough to talk to a professor
for Merkers in a mornay scene who has a
special interest in biotechnology I very
much agree and like his fear in cloning
which is to continue it for the medical
and technological advancements it can
possibly bring us but put many many
restrictions on
so to strictly use for scientific
purposes only that will hopefully help
him through society so what is cloning
how does it work well to start there are
three different types of crying
gene therapeutic and reproductive and
when physically creating a clone all
three methods coincide with each other
it’s all like one big relay race the
first lap is gene cloning getting the
organism’s DNA ready to be cloned then
gene coding passes the baton to
therapeutic therapeutic will transfer
the duplicated DNA to the recipient and
lastly reproductive cloning will
determine if the team wins or loses or
in other words if the egg will be able
to flourish in the host uterus and if
they win they’ll be able to have the
baby congratulations it’s really not
that complicated if you think about it
though thinking and doing
I took completely different ideas today
cloning is way more advanced from when
the very first clone was created in 1996
and is on its way to creating a very
first human clone although some
companies claim they created a human
clone they’ve never shown actual proof
like a company called clonaid created
through the religion of ralien which
thinks humans were created by
extraterrestrials yes aliens claims they
created the 1st 2nd and 3rd human clones
but though they provided zero evidence
besides a video of the first co named
Eve even though they stated they were
going to give DNA evidence then backed
out hmm I wonder why
now just because there hasn’t been a
credible human clone doesn’t mean there
hasn’t been a handful of animals that
have been how many of you have heard of
the first living cloned Dolly the sheep
Dolly was born on July 5th 1996
I know so close to having a great
barbecue every year for a birthday as
long as she’s in on the menu
creating Dolly was not an easy task and
scientists tucum was three hundred tries
to ultimately produce and although Dolly
was an incredible phenomenon
she still had many ailments throughout
her life along with arthritis and after
many other types of animals are cloned
how many of you own a pet now for the
people that raise their hands how many
of you love your pets would do anything
for them sometimes love them more than
people most pet owners do but some have
gone above and beyond for them for
instance dr. Philip dupa spent tens of
thousands of dollars cloning his ten
year old government Catahoula makes
Melvin not only once but twice
his friends and family surprisingly
encouraged him to do this because they
figured at least he is spending his
money on something he loves and now
several other pet owners are
contemplating the idea of cloning their
pets now I don’t want a pet so I can’t
speak on all pet owners per house but if
I did even if I cloned it and won I
wouldn’t want if it even if it died I
wouldn’t want to clone it to keep it
with me plus Cloney should be used to
her scientific research that’ll help him
for the entire world not help one person
cope with a loss of their pet so yes
cloning would be able to fry it if many
advancements in fact couples who are
fertile could still have a biological
child through cloning plus genetic
engineering can make clones of the
greatest qualities even better more
advanced and if we wanted to the perfect
human though remember what happened in
Gattaca regular people like you and me
were discriminated against
therefore as weensy scientists are on
the right track to leaving the very
first physical human clone but the real
question is should we for one we have no
idea what could happen if we do clone
humans there are a million different
unimaginable consequences that could
occur and we’re just supposed to sit
back and see what happens
no wonder over 30 countries have banned
it because they’re afraid of the dangers
it could cause to their citizens
also I’ve already told you about the
medical advancements cloning could
possibly provide but what about the
medical disadvantage myths what if the
clones come with a new disease very
contagious unaware to the human race it
could wipe out society as we know it it
would
there are immune systems wouldn’t be
able to defend the body because the
disease is unaware unusual unknown with
no way of stopping it
another reason is the ethical problems
of cloning are bigger than most people
realize at this time I want you to think
for a second do you believe that there
is a God do you believe that this God
created people society the entire world
the majority of people do so for someone
to go above God to create their own
human could result in a spiritual
catastrophe of epic proportions there’s
just one epical problem of many I mean
ever since we were kids we were told by
our parents that it is great and amazing
to be different that being unique makes
us special my fifth grade teachers even
told me that if someone ever called me
unique to thank them because it was a
compliment to embrace their differences
when there is someone else out in the
world exactly like you you can’t do that
you can’t feel the same way just go
stonings sounds futuristic doesn’t mean
it should be in the future we are in the
future that people from the 50s and 60s
dreamt about I mean we have hoverboards
we have robots living in our house like
a LexA where we can ask them questions
or tell them what to do and they’ll do
it we are the future and we decide if we
want cloning in it we yes it means me
and you choose if we want to allow
people to create a race of humans
that’ll push us aside make us feel
useless and unimportant so let me ask
you do you want that still coning isn’t
perfect and needs improvements however
with the technology that is now
available we could possibly use it for
medical advancements if we allow it like
dr. nassim said it could improve our
society by way more than we can imagine
though we don’t know if this will ever
occur because there’s so many negative
cons and drawbacks to it now to give
back to that riddle at the beginning I’m
guessing you know the answer by now the
sheeps were clones cloning something you
thought was only real in movies though
only
little while ago people used to think
movies for only real and books thank you
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