But the decision is a controversial one. Kevin Dillon of the Movement Against the Cloning of Humans thinks it is a step too far, but the University of London's Professor Steve Jones backs the pioneering technology. The argument for human cloning By Professor Steve Jones Cloning is one of those words that delivers a lot less than it promises.
Cloning is simply reproduction without sex.
You are a clone, and so am I, descended in the most chaste fashion from a single fertilised egg by simple cell division. Every one of the millions of King Edward potatoes is one too, grown without sex by dividing one plant into two. There is also, of course, Dolly the sheep. That amazing animal that was cloned by inserting the genes of one sheep into the emptied egg of another, to give a perfectly normal lamb with no father but two mothers. Transplant breakthrough All this is cloning but most people see the word only in terms of making identical copies not of sheep, but of humans.