Cloning debate erupts anew.The national dialogue on human cloning Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and cognition, "genetically identical" does not mean altogether identical; identical twins, despite being natural human clones with near identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether continued this month when President Clinton denounced a scientist's plan to clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically people. The President was reacting to Chicago physicist Richard Seed's announcement that he intended to raise money for a fertility clinic Fertility clinics are staffed medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents but for medical reasons have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course. that would clone people. Seed, an entrepreneur, made his comments at a December scientific meeting. The proposal received widespread media attention after a report was aired on National Public Radio. In his Jan. 10 radio address, Clinton urged Congress to ban the cloning of human beings for at least 5 years. The Food and Drug Administration said it is prepared to regulate human cloning research and warned that any such work done without FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. approval world be illegal. |
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