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 …show more content…
Some sources state that using mammoth DNA could extend the range of the Asian elephant lowering the chances that this species would become extinct as it would mean that the species would have less contact with humans reducing the likelihood of extinction for this currently engendered species. In contradiction to this , it can be noted that mammoths went extinct in the tundra as they did not have adequate genetic diversity meaning that the species was more susceptible to diseases which lead to its extinction and did not allow the species to adapt to cater for changes in the environment, if this was the case in the past there is no guarantee that it would work for modern elephants. Along with this brings the issue of how a newborn mammoth would cope as it would lack basic epigenetics and social groups, even parents which are essential for a mammal to each * which both play a major part in shaping the character of the animal. Research suggest that mammoths were a social creature and In Addition to this, re-creating a mammoth would introduce with a complicated set of legalities that relate to the Endangered species act and patent laws. In summary, I believe that the implications of re-introducing mammoths or mammoth-like creatures will have overwhelmingly negative implications both to humans and to the existing ecosystem that is in the Siberian
“Opponents of bringing back extinct species think that it may make people less concerned about future environmental destruction” People would not half to worry about environment distractions if they bring back the Wooly Mammoth because it would make its environment healthy again. “De-extinction could offer insights into evolution and natural resources that are currently unavailable to us.” Even humans could get something out of bringing back the Wooly Mammoth such as resources that we don’t have right now that could help us in the
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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.
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Behind a glass wall stands a live wooly mammoth and saber tooth cat. As seen on the famous cartoon movie Ice Age, kids watch this popular film to be intrigued. Now they can not only be fascinated with creatures that have been lurking around their imagination, but live with them thanks to de-extinction. Extinction has existed for over 66 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out. Now scientist have disproven the definition of extinct; (of a species, family, or other larger group) having no living members. By showing that extinct animals that were once proven to be no longer in existence can be resurrected through deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This process of de-extinction starts with extracting DNA from remains, then putting those fragments together to form the genome. From there scientists would have to create a usable pup by using the
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see a living Woolly Mammoth? Well I am strongly against bringing animals back through a process called de-extinction. Scientists should not bring animals back to life for many reasons. Three reasons why I believe this are: ecosystems have changed since the extinct animal was alive, we won’t care if we kill other species because we can just revive them, and de-extinction has unforeseen consequences (Jurassic Park). These reasons are why I do not support de-extinction.
Any organism, especially ones with higher intelligence, are a cumulation of their phenotypic traits and environmental interactions (Gill, 2015). While it may have the outwards appearance of a mammoth (long red hair, thick fat layer, smaller ears) because mammoths are herd animals, it must be raised in a elephant herd structure (Gill, 2015). While we assume that elephants can be proxy parents to the mammoth child, the truth is that there is learned behaviour that a mammoth needs to survive that an elephant can not impart. Thus while it may look like an mammoth, behaviorally it will be an elephant. This will make that mammoth child ill adapted to the Siberian environment, and there is an ethical duty to the animal to give it the best possible life. To do this you may need to alter the environment for it, or force an elephant herd to adapt to colder climates. This brings into question how far we are willing to go for a frivolous endeavor such as this. These are only some of the major concerns around this issue, but there are others. These include considerations about financial cost/benefit, adaptation to disease, and long term upkeep of a mammoth herd. (Gill,
It has been done before where a species is brought back, which was the Pyrenean Ibex who was cloned but shortly died after birth due to lung problems making it the first ever species to be extinct twice. Although, a new ideal has been created which would involve hybridizing animals to bring back extinct species. For example, the mammoth could be brought back by using the last DNA samples there is and adding them to a closely related animal which would be an elephant to carry the hybridized embryo. This would bring back the mammoth to life, although it wouldn’t be a pure mammoth as it would be a hybrid between a mammoth and a modern-day elephant. That is how hybrids can be used to bring back extinct species, yet not all extinct species can be resurrected.
“Our species has played a role in the extinction of these and many other species. But now some scientists are proposing a radical turn of the tables: Bringing lost species back from the dead” (Switek). Brian Switek, an author, says this in his article, How to Resurrect Lost Species because he thinks that this proposal will be difficult and extreme and that bringing extinct animals back will be a long process and may have some consequences behind it. Some scientist say that bringing back extinct animals will improve the environment and society because people will know what cloning technology is capable of and these animals may help environmental surroundings. Others say that it will be an irresponsible decision because it is a waste of money,
Recently, he and a team of colleagues confronted a new question: If molecular biologists can potentially reconstruct extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, should society devote its limited resources to reversing past wrongs, or on preventing future extinctions? "If you have the millions of dollars it would take to resurrect a species and choose to do that, you are making an ethical decision to bring one species back and let several others go extinct," Dr.
“The subject of animal cloning has provoked debate about the ethics of interfering with nature as well as about the danger of using laboratory means to accomplish what habitat preservation and other conservation measures cannot” (Gugliotta A3). Now there is talk that they are going to start cloning animals that have been extinct from ten to thousands of years ago. Scientists are contemplating the possibility of cloning a 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth from a block of ice in northern Siberia and are planning to use an elephant for it is surrogate mother (Gugliotta A3). This is just crazy, I don’t think that I need to remind every one of the movie Jurassic Park. Do we want to move into a world of genetically engineered animals? I definitely do not; these animals became extinct for a reason and who are we to say that it is time for them to roam to earth again?
During the past few years’ scientists have come closer to cloning extinct species due to advances in technology. There are many benefits and possibilities with cloning extinct animals but there are also many ethical implications and economic issues.