Mammoth Carcass: The History Of Cloning

With technology and science a lot now has improved, like the technique designed to prevent mothers from passing genetic diseases to babies. This could be the first step towards designer babies, Bringing extinct animals back to life, and cloning dogs. However there`s a lot of opinions and arguments about if we should? Or shouldn`t? It still needs a lot of time for the regulators to confirm its safety, as well as a lot of research money, so the question is, will it be worth it? I believe scientist in the US should continue to peruse and develop new technology, as well as making sure the technique of the process is safe especially in the project of making babies free of devastating diseases. In the future we may be able to cure diseases, help

Animal cloning started without the world even knowing. First, an animal clone is “an exact physical copy of one ‘parent’” (Newman 12). “Animal cloning experiments began in the 1960’s. Frogs were the first subjects. By 1987 scientists had begun cloning cows and other mammals” (Newman 12). Dolly the sheep was the first big cloning success, credited to Ian Wilmut in 1996 (Praded 21). This sheep was a scientific breakthrough, but it also caused many people to question the intents of scientists. Many people wondered if scientists would clone humans next. The original intent of animal cloning was not for the food industry. The reason animal cloning started was to find a way to help cure currently untreatable diseases (“Why Do Scientists Clone?”). By cloning cells, scientists will be able to manipulate the cells to become something new.

When scientist use a test subject for the embryo, the embryo will be put inside a elephant and the mammoth will have more elephant traits than mammoth traits. Instead of recreating the mammoth exactly, scientist are trying to make it a hybrid “mammophant” (Wood, 2017). Dr. Church is even going to make the Woolly Mammoth not have a parent and have the egg of the mammoth outside not inside an elephant thus making a hybrid (Wood, 2017). Some scientists agree that the Woolly Mammoth should not be resurrected. One zoologist says that people do not know if the Woolly Mammoth is a social creature and how other elephants will react to the mammoth (Devli, 2017). This supports the claim because if the Woolly Mammoth is not a purebred how do we know the animal won’t change some of its features so say it is warm blooded but it can change its body temperature to cold blood so the mammoth can not be detected by heat sensors so allowing the mammoth to escape. Also if the mammoth has most traits of an elephant, it will do more elephant things rather than things that the mammoth would do back in the ice age. It would not be good to try and study the mammoth and learn how the mammoth works. If we do make a Woolly Mammoth and put it in a zoo with the rest of the elephants and the elephant do not get along with the mammoth then the elephants might pick on

One reason is this is a huge advancement into the future of bringing extinct animals back as there is more possibilities than just a woolly mammoth. After you figure out the pattern of cloning this beast you can figure out many more ways to clone animals. I read in an article on TheGuardian.com that scientists have thought if somehow they could figure out how to clone these mammoths then they could open a whole new world of possibilities. DNA replication is super hard so finding the correct pieces of DNA to put together and find the way of cloning the exact body type would be world renowned.

Although actual knowledge to bring the long dead back to life is not yet known, similar science is currently in the works. Human cloning has been a hot topic of debate for decades, as it is also looked at as being a way of humans playing God. The first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell was a female sheep, named Dolly. Since then, the idea of cloning humans is something that has the potential for

Imagine a world where all the animals we know today in the 21st century are replaced with the Ice age. From dinosaurs, Mammoths, Dados and even a Tasmanian Tiger. Movies like the, “Jurassic Park,” might become a creepy check. DNA and technology has taken scientist to the next level on bringing back extinct animals. Money is being wasted. The space and environment isn’t the same. Our animals today are at risk of becoming long-gone. Cloning extinct animals is not right. It doesn't balance our food chain and is unnatural.

The source suggests that it isn't difficult to clone a mammoth as scientists have already sequenced the 80% of mammoth gene and could bring a mammoth back to life by inserting the nucleus from a mammoth cell into an Asian elephant egg. The resulting baby would contain features of a mammoth. The current issue faced by scientists is that extinct species such as mammoths may be infected with diseases that other animals in tundra have lost immunity to over thousands of years . If these diseases are released into the environment it could be a disaster for the ecosystem as a whole. Furthermore, it is stated that using an Asian elephant surrogate mother could be risky for the elephant as mammoths and elephants only share 99% of the DNA and are as

If this process is successful, scientists might be able to clone other living organisms that lived thousands of years ago, such as plants or bacteria, which could help cure diseases like cancer or AIDS today. The mammoth part was particularly interesting, because as long as the nucleus is still intact, scientist might still be able to clone it even though most of the cells were frozen in the tundra long ago. If this process does work, then scientists might be able to clone nuclei from species that lived in the desert, or possibly deep in the ocean and bring them back as well. The article also brought up an important problem with today’s environment and how the cloned species wouldn’t be able to survive. This does bring up a valid point, since the environment that many of these animals lived in thousands of years ago were vastly different then they are today. Furthermore, even if scientists were able to successfully clone a species that was able to survive in today’s environment, the addition of this new species could change the environment’s ecosystem or might cause other animals in said ecosystem to become either endangered or

Recently, Harvard geneticist George Church and his team announced that they could produce an Asian elephant-mammoth embryo in a couple of years. The result would not be a mammoth, but it would be an Asian elephant with mammoth traits. The team chose to use Asian elephant because they are the most like wooly mammoths. The team has incorporated traits of a wooly mammoth into elephant DNA using CRISPR, a gene-editing technology. The team must raise the embryo in an artificial womb since Asian elephants are endangered and cannot be put at risk. I think this task would be very hard to achieve because it would be hard to raise an embryo for so long. Although this task is hard, I think it is very interesting because

In the feature article "Wooly Mammoth DNA inserted into Elephant cells," the author, Tanya Lewis, explains scientist opinion about cloning a hybrid mammoth-elephant. According to the article scientist decided to insert the Mammoth DNA in a lab-grown elephant cell. The article claims that scientist not only used the DNA of a mammoth they have also used Tasmanian tiger, Pyrenean ibex and a passenger pigeon before. According to Scientist these animals are all candidates for de-extinction, by cloning them they could bring them back from extinction. Scientist The article suggest that if this experiment works this could save elephants from humans and help as many endangered species improve their long-term viability.

Some countries like Brazil are discussing if cloning can save endangered species.In 2009 the Brazilian Agricultural Research. Is freezing blood, sperm and umbilical cord cells from animals of roadkill and some other type of

No longer is cloning a cheesy cliché in some horrible sci-fi flick one watches when there’s nothing else on, it’s been proven possible for decades and even performed a number of times. Dolly the sheep was the living testament of man’s journey to touch the untouchable, to test the boundaries of nature. As technology advances we are able to explore these limits thoroughly and produce significant results. But, as we do so, we must propose the question as to whether we should. Cloning is immoral and unethical when performed with animals—as it has been—but comprises a large pool of potential from which new discoveries can be made.

The thought of bringing back animals from the past has been a fascination of scientists, writers, and filmmakers for many years. With some recent breakthroughs in cloning this may be possible, specifically with mammoths. While it may be possible, the question of the ethics and logistics around it must be raised. The benefits of this recreating a mammoth are more superficial in my opinion, but they are still relevant. The data we could take from observing an animal that has not existed for thousands of years, or the closest thing we will ever come to it. From this data we could make better inferences about the ecology and evolution of mammoths. There would also be an enormous economic benefit to the country who would host this species, which

The concept of cloning has been around since the 1800’s, although, in the field of scientists, it has slowly been evolving into a vigorously debated topic, throughout the last 3 decades. Cloning is essentially defined as the process of artificially reproducing genetically identical organisms. Scientists all around the world, through research, are still learning more about the topic, but the fascinating process officially gained awareness as a result of a 1986 experiment conducted by Ian Wilmut, scientist at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. The project was essentially centred around a sheep referred to as “Dolly” that was cloned in a lab using a frozen mammary cell from another adult sheep. At the time, this was a significant milestone in

Scientific experimentation has led us to many great discoveries such as: Chemotherapy, heart surgery, and bone marrow transplants. Recently scientists have discovered a new way to heal humans. This is known as cloning. Although they have yet to clone a human they have cloned sheep. Cloning has brought up a huge controversy among the American people. There are two sides to the story. Either you agree with cloning or you don’t. The only way to help make that decision is to look at the good and bad points of cloning.