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Cloning In Jurassic Park

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One of my favorite movies of all-time is Jurassic Park. In Jurassic Park, scientists in the future are able to bring dinosaurs back from the past by cloning them from their prehistoric DNA.
Among the various issues with the theme park, the concept of cloning has attracted a lot of attention and brought troubling implications. This idea of cloning isn’t new--it has been done with actual organisms and animals, an example being Dolly the Sheep. What strikes me the most, however, is not the technicalities of cloning, but rather the ethics of it and how humanity is at a point where simple collection of DNA has the potential to, in a sense, bring the dead back. All things considered, it seems obvious that the dramatic consequences and ramifications of cloning necessitate both the discussion and establishment of precautions and restrictions on cloning.

In retrospect, I have actually seen and read many movies about aliens or monsters being created from a lab (Frankenstein comes to mind). What particularly stood out to me in Jurassic park compared to other movies is that in Jurassic Park, the technology used for cloning organisms from DNA is far more grounded in reality. One suspenseful scene that surprised me was when one of the creatures was being unloaded in …show more content…

Ian Malcolm, remarks about “man playing God”. I was perplexed by the concept of man playing God. It was later when I came to understand that even if the intentions of cloning were valid and well-meaning, there would still be major risks. The power wielded by the humans to clone and essentially rebirth the dinosaurs has ethical flaws due to genetic engineering and the use frog DNA to fill in the missing holes of the dinosaur DNA. Nevertheless, the humans of Jurassic Park, intoxicated with their role of “God”, prove to be too carried away with their greed, and overlook the ethical aspects of their

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