Organ Cloning for Transplants
By Gianna Zappulla and Stasia Nguyen
What is Organ Cloning?
How does organ cloning effect the world?
Organ cloning for transplants can affect the environment around us. These transplants allow humans to replace an organ making it able to function properly. From this it effects our environment by increasing our population. Organ diseases cause about 22 deaths a day, that is about 8,000 people per year. When replacing organs this will decrease deaths. Along with organ donations and organ cloning, the process of making people healthier faster. On the other hand, cloning organs can lead to new mutations or diseases. This is possible if a younger woman gets a cloned organ that properly functions. Later in life, their could be a disease in the gene affecting the child. along with environmental factors, organ cloning also effects the economy. To start trials and tests to see how affective this idea is, a lot of money will be needed. For example, when they cloned the sheep Dolly, the estimated cost of the project was $750,000. Organ cloning will be about the same.