However, eukaryotes also have cell organelles called mitochondria, which are the power plants of the cell. They generate the ‘energy currency of life’, ATP, using the world’s tiniest motor, ATP synthase.
Humans seem to be designed4 to inherit mtDNA from the mother’s line only; it seems that the sperm cells can’t pass it on, although there is some debate about this.
A key difference between humans and animals is that humans are made in the image of God—this image was broken but not lost at the Fall. God gave mankind dominion over the rest of creation, but never over fellow humans ( And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26–28). Human cloning or embryonic stem cell research and these experiments would be treating tiny newly conceived humans as objects of dominion instead of fellow divine images."
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