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4. Cloning means making a copy of an animal. 5. Cloning animals is as complicated as cloning plants. 6. Dolly the sheep was the first successful clone of a mammal. Advantages Medical cloning could produce cures for serious illness in humans. Cloning plants can produce plants of similar quality for sale. Cloning plants can be useful for research on new plant species. Cloning can help save endangered animals. Problems Animal clones may develop the illness of older animals. Animal clones may die younger than the original animals. Evil leaders may want to clone themselves. There are moral objections to cloning human beings. Arguments on cloning Evil leaders hope to clone ___________. Religious leaders raised ________ questions. Many governments _______ research into human cloning. Some countries continued to ___________evidence of the abundant medical aid. moral forbade themselves accumulate Is cloning beneficial or harmful to us ? Advantages Disadvantages Group 1 Group 2 Debate Look at the following pictures. Which is natural clone? Which is man-made clone? What can you see in the picture? We can see a strawberry plant producing runners (匍匐茎)in a natural form of cloning. Who cut the stem off the plant? A gardener. The gardener is going to put it into a pot to produce another plant. Cactus (仙人掌) orchid (兰花) natural clone examples They are identical in sex and appearance, who are produced from the same original egg. Twins Natural clones 2001 cloning cattle 我国成功繁殖克隆兔 体形要比普通兔大许多 2002年5月中旬成功地繁殖了一只胚胎细胞克隆兔。 2002 cloning cats 第一只克隆宠物猫 克隆马及其“母亲兼姐姐” 2005 cloning dogs 克隆的荧光小猪(左)和正常小猪(右) Cloning is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant. It includes natural cloning and man-made cloning. What’s cloning? Natural clone is one that occurs in nature without human help. Man-made clone is one that is produced through human intervention (介入). Clone Can you tell the difference between natur