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Limie Sanada

Grade 6B

19 April 2018

Title: Cloning Argument Essay

Did you know that cloning, which many people do not approve of, can have many Commented [1]: Also, Limie, you might give a short
overview of what cloning is.
benefits that could help society? Artificial Cloning is the science of creating a clone, which is an

identical copy of an organism, by using the organism’s DNA. Cloning helps a lot of global issues

that are affecting our world greatly right now and should be used more to help our world. In this Commented [2]: In this essay, I will ....(subtopics)

essay, I will talk about the 3 main reasons of why cloning is good for our society.

The first reason why cloning is useful and good for our society is that you could revive Commented [3]: Perhaps this paragraph could be a
little clearer. Maybe you can include some statistics
about endangered/extinct species and what problems
endangered animals. Many species of animals become extinct throughout time, and people this could cause. Then, tell the story of the white rhino
as a kind of example. Could be broken into 2
couldn’t stop it. Many scientists such as Loring and Ryder agreed to the idea of cloning paragraphs
Commented [4]: Ok, Thank you!
endangered species, and wanted to try experimenting, working together. “When I met Oliver Commented [5]: I like that you've added a lot of
quotes to this paragraph. However, it could feel a little
Ryder we just started talking, and then we realized that he had cells and I had technology,” too much like other people's ideas and not your own
opinion. Maybe if you summarised what some of the
scientists said, and then explained what it meant that
Loring said. “So we just went ahead and did it for the first paper in 2011, and since then the zoo might make it sound like more of your thoughts.

has been supporting the work.” For example, last month, the species of a rhino called the White

Rhino, which used to be one of the very common species of rhino, was becoming endangered,

leaving only a few males. Prof Millar had stressed that cloning would have “poor efficiency”,

because it would take a lot of resources and also could fail many times, with a chance of

accidentally killing the animal. However, many say that we should’ve at least tried the
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experiment and not watch the extinction happen. Pierce, who was another scientist, said that

“There’s no avoiding it”, as in there is no avoiding the deaths and extinction of an animal

species, saying that it’s better to let it happen. Like so, people can use the science of artificial

cloning to help species last and be kept away from extinction, and help our society.

Another reason why cloning is useful for

our society is that you could farm better.

Agriculture is very important for our society and

keeping us alive, and cloning can be very useful

for that. People could clone more animals such as

cow and pig, which people eat, to help get a lot

more meat for people (and animals) to eat, using live cloning. Scientists can also clone plants, by

grafting. Grafting is when scientists (usually botanists) create branches off a cut branch of a

plant, to make a plant identical to the base, with all the fruits and leaves. The practice of grafting

can be traced back 4,000 years to ancient China and Mesopotamia . By grafting, people can Commented [6]: This sentence belongs in your lead

make a lot more fruits and vegetables and other edible plants to eat as well as the meat. Thus,

cloning can be used for better agriculture and create more food for humans to eat, and help our

society’s future.

The last reason why cloning can be useful for our future is that we could use it to cure Commented [7]: Very clear paragraph. This sounds
like a very convincing argument. Maybe you can give
an example of a particular disease or injury that can be
humans and animals’ diseases and injuries. Therapeutic cloning is a type of artificial fixed with therapeutic cloning.
Commented [8]: Ok!
cloning where people clone body parts and tissues and not a full body. Therapeutic cloning can

be used for curing injuries and diseases a human or animal has by replacing the infected organs
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with the clone. It doesn’t cost as much as live cloning and doesn’t have many negative things

about it. Unlike reproductive cloning, it doesn’t increase the population or create lives, it just

heals. Therapeutic cloning has already kept many organisms from death, like mice and small

animals. If we use therapeutic cloning in the future, we may be able to save people’s lives from

diseases and injuries, and there will be more professions of cloning. So, cloning can be useful for

the society because of therapeutic cloning, which can clone organs for people who don’t

have/injured them.

To sum it up, cloning has many advantages, and can be used for helping endangered Commented [9]: Your conclusion is a bit forceful,
almost as if your are thrusting your opinion on others?
Could you leave your reader wondering about
animals, better agriculture, and medication, which could all help society and its people & something...allow the reader to make their own
conclusion to some extent.
animals. If scientists cloned more, the world will be changed, in either a positive or negative Commented [10]: Ok, I'll try that.

way.
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Works Cited

● Bilderback, Ted. “Grafting and Budding Nursery Crop Plants.” NC State Extension. June

30, 2014. Web. March 29, 2018.

● “Introducing the world’s first monkey clones.” The Day Explorer. February 02, 2018.

Web. April 11, 2018.

● Gibbens, Sarah. “Last Male Northern White Rhino Sudan Remembered in Ceremony.”

National Geographic. March 31, 2018. Web. March 31, 2018.

● Delzo, Janissa. “During Last Male Northern White Rhino’s Official Says Poachers

Should be ‘Jailed for Life.” Newsweek. April 01, 2018. Web. March 31, 2018.

● “Therapeutic Cloning (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer).” Australian Stem Cell Centre.

July 2010. Web. April 4, 2018.

● “Benefits of Cloning (Pros).” Genetic Engineering. n.d. Web. April 4, 2018

● "Cloning." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 4 Dec. 2017.

● Henneburg, Susan."Cloning." Print.

● Grafting Picture