Cloning and Its Impact The definition of a clone is an organism that has the same genetic information as another organism or organisms. Scientific and ethical studies of cloning, prove that, cloning will have a negative rather than a positive effect on society. The goals and purposes for cloning range from making copies of those who have died, to bettering the engineering of offspring in humans and animals (Hawley, 1998). Cloning could also directly offer a means of curing diseases or could offer a technique that could extend means to acquiring new data for the sciences of embryology and how organisms develop as a whole over time. Cur