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The definition of Cloning is to create a genetic copy or duplicate of a DNA sequence, a cell, or an entire organism. In this essay, I will focus on Human Cloning, otherwise known as Reproductive Cloning and discuss whether or not it is ethical. What is Reproductive Cloning? To some of us, it sounds like a myth or an idea from a science fiction movie. However, this is a technology that through the advancement of science, man has finally come to understand as a possibility. Genes are strings of chemicals that help create the proteins, which make up our bodies. They are found in long coiled chains called chromosomes and are located in the nuclei of the cells in our bodies. Normally, in sexual reproduction, a child gets half of its genes from its mother in her egg and half from its father in his sperm. This combination of genes is the basic foundation for human variation and diversity. In other words, no one will ever be the exact same as another individual. However, in Reproductive Cloning, all of the cloned child's genes would come from a single body cell of a single person. Reproductive Cloning is an asexual form or reproduction. Right now, the best known cloning technique is called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT). I