Modern Cloning and "Brave New World"

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This paper examines modern cloning technology in light of the trepidation to this process as presented in the novel "Brave New World." The paper compares Aldous Huxley's image of cloning in "Brave New World" to the controversies this process inspires today. The paper contends that although today's cloning does not hold the place in society that it did in Huxley's work, the process must still be monitored and controlled. Also described are the various types of cloning and the benefits cloning can offer humanity.

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" While there are different types of cloning, cloning itself is creating an identical copy of something. DNA cloning for instance is a common practice in biological labs since the 1970s and involves "the transfer of a DNA fragment of interest from one organism to a self-replicating genetic element such as a bacterial plasmid" (Human Genome Project 2006). Other types of cloning involve creating entirely new organisms and this is known as reproductive cloning as it "generates an animal that has the same exact DNA as another" (Human Genome Project 2006). Cloning is a broad term that comes to mean some kind of reproduction asexually."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Cloning Fact Sheet." Human Genome Project. 29 Aug. 2006. 13 Apr. 2007 <http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml>.
• Freudenrich, Ph.d., Craig C. "How Cloning Works." Howstuffworks.Com. 12 Apr. 2007 <http://science.howstuffworks.com/cloning.htm>.
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• Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World : a Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933.
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