Have you ever stopped just to look in the mirror? Have you felt the desire to change a specific feature or characteristic about you? Or even wondered what life would be like if there was another “you”? A few decades ago, these thoughts would have been marked as fiction, but the more we continue to delve into the mysteries of life in the early 21st century, the closer these crazy dreams seem to come to the dividend between science and science. . fiction and reality which, until now, have managed to separate the two for centuries. Nowadays, many tests and experiments are frequently conducted in an attempt to gain praise for breaking this barrier over time. Because of recent progress toward this goal, which so many scientists have set for themselves, nature is being changed with every moment that life continues. Parents now have the opportunity to create their own “perfect” child. People are now allowed to “create an identical twin” for themselves. How? Through a method - genetic engineering - so controversial that it has divided into numerous 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 surrealist goal, because she believes that genetic engineering and cloning go against the grain of natural procreation, which is the central aspect of life. Thanks to the power of the atom, many scientists and researchers began to venture deeper into gene discovery in the late 20th century. The study of the anatomy of DNA and the nucleotides that compose it opened the way to genetic engineering...... middle of article ......ne.org/2/13_genetic_engineering.htm >.Oak, Manali. “Advantages and disadvantages of cloning.” Buzzle Web Portal: intelligent life on the Web. Buzz, 2011. Internet. November 13, 2011. .Oak, Manali. “Advantages and disadvantages 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. US Department of Energy Office of Science. “Cloning Fact Sheet.” Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Human Genome Project, May 11, 2009. Web. November 11, 2011..Whitesides, JG “Bioethics”. Dictionary of American History 1.3 (2003): 461-62. Print.