Have you ever stopped just to look at yourself in the mirror? Have you felt the desire to change a specific trait or trait about yourself? Or have you even wondered what life would be like if there was another “you”? A few decades ago, those thoughts would have been labeled with the stamp of fiction, but the more we continue to immerse ourselves in the mysteries of life in the early stages of the 21st century, the closer those wild dreams seem to get closer to the science-versus-science divide. fiction and reality which, so far, have successfully separated the two for centuries. Nowadays, numerous tests and experiments are often conducted in an attempt to gain praise for breaking that barrier as time goes by. Due to recent progress towards this goal, which so many scientists have set for themselves, nature is being altered every single moment that life continues. Parents are now given the opportunity to conjure up their “perfect” child. Now people can “create an identical twin” for themselves. As? Through a method, genetic engineering, so controversial that it has branched into many subcategories in an attempt to gain positive recognition. In the eyes of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or a Modern Prometheus, scientists studying genetic engineering have failed to achieve their surreal goal, because she believes that genetic engineering and cloning go against natural procreation, which it is the central aspect of life. Thanks to the power of the atom, many scientists and researchers began to venture deeper into gene discovery during the closing stages of the 20th century. The study of the anatomy of DNA and the nucleotides that compose it have opened the way to genetic engineering...... half of the article......ne.org/2/13_genetic_engineering.htm>.Oak, Manali. "Pros and Cons of Cloning." Buzzle Web Portal: intelligent life on the Web. Buzzle, 2011. Network. 13 November 2011. .Quercia, Manali. “Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering.” Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web.Buzzle, 2011. Web. November 11, 2011.engineering.html>.Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Austin: Harcourt & Brace, 1997. Print. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. “Fact Sheet on Cloning.” Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Human Genome Project, May 11, 2009. Web. November 11, 2011..Whitesides, J. G. "Bioethics." Dictionary of American History 1.3 (2003): 461-62. Press.