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Cloning is a term with more than one meaning, sometimes in science they may refer to it as molecular cloning, cellular cloning, embryo twinning,
and nuclear somatic transfer. What happens in molecular cloning is that strings of DNA that contain genes are duplicated in a host bacterium.
Cellular cloning involves copying cells into what is called a "cell line", this procedure involves identical copies of the original and it grows forever.
When embryo twinning is involved they take the embryo that has already been formed sexually and split it into two. The process of taking an adult cell
and placing it into an egg cell where the nucleus has been taken out is called the nuclear somatic transfer.
A quote written by Nancy Duff puts cloning into perspective for everybody to understand,"Many people wonder if this is a miracle
for which we can thank God, or an ominous new way to play God ourselves."
Weighing in at a healthy 14.5 pounds, July 5, 1996, Dolly the cloned lamb entered into this world. She was created in Roslin Institute in Roslin, Scotland.
The creator Ian Wilmut, who did not believe in God but in ethics, got this idea in a bar, ten years prior before Dolly, overhearing about a scientist
named Willadsen who created a lamb clone in Texas using the fusion method. He was amazed at the idea and thought about the possibilities.
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