The year is 2024. The world's population has almost doubled and the American economy has reached an all-time low. Resources are low and the world is in chaos. How could the world population increase so quickly? Human cloning was eventually created, and everyone who wanted a clone of themselves bought one. Soon, households had twice as many mouths to feed and there was not enough food. Is this the future people want? It appears in science fiction novels, frivolous cartoons and newspaper headlines. Despite its popularity, cloning is such a broad topic that very little information has been found about it. “There are three types of cloning: DNA cloning, therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning” (Farrel and Carson-Dewitt). Reproductive cloning is the method used to clone complex organisms like animals and possibly humans. Although cloning is a largely unknown and ambiguous aspect of science, it remains highly controversial. Animal cloning is questioned, but human cloning is constantly debated. Scientists are beginning to clone organisms, but this is wrong and unnatural because it goes against many religions, requires advanced technology, and will negatively impact the human population. Cloning can have many different meanings. According to the Collins English Dictionary, cloning can be defined as a group of organisms or cells of the same genetic material originating from a common ancestor through asexual reproduction ("clone"). In other words, DNA is extracted from one organism and transferred into another (“clone”). Cloning is considered science fiction, but it has been around for over fifty years. However, cloning was never popular until 1997. Dolly, the sheep, was the first mammal to be successfully cloned. "Although several other animal species have been... middle of paper ...... ing, Human." Biotechnology: Changing lives through science. Flight. 1: Medicine. Detroit: U*X*L, 2007 65-69. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. February 20, 2014. Farrell, Courtney and Carson-Dewitt, Rosalyn. “Cloning: an overview”. . Web. February 20, 2014. Herper, Matthew. "We cloned you. Now here's the bill." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, June 29, 2001. Web. February 27, 2014. “Human Cloning.” Issues and controversies on file: n. p. Problems and controversies. Facts On File News Services, December 29, 2006. Web. February 24, 2014. Wells, Ken R. “Cloning.” Environmental Encyclopedia Ed. Marci Bortman, Peter Brimblecombe and Mary Ann Cunningham, 3rd ed. 268-270. Gale Virtual Reference Library.. 2014.