Animal Cloning
Imagine you are in the hospital, on the waitlist for an organ, yet the doctor says receiving a donor organ is rare. You're praying for someone to be able to donate their organ or even die so you can live. It is a scary thought and the possibility of not surviving due to the rarity of the organ.
Cloning is a topic that has arisen in today’s modern day society and many people have talked about it, positive and negatively. Cloning can fix several problems including that donor donation and even the cloning of extinct animals. Many are against the use of animal cloning claiming it is inhumane and cruel, however, more are for animal cloning. Although many people are against the use of animal cloning, it would eliminate the need
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On July 30, 2003, a group of French and Spanish scientists were able to bring back an animal from extinction. They were able to revive an animal called a bucardo, which is like a wild goat. The bucardo was a large creature, “reaching up to 220 pounds and sporting long, gently curved horns,” (Zimmer). This type of wild goat lived thousands of years high in the Pyrenee mountains. They were very populated and then people began to hunt them. “In 1989 Spanish scientists did a survey and concluded that there were only a dozen or so individuals left,” (Zimmer). Scientist decided they had to do something about this species that is becoming extinct due to the hunters so they found a Bucardo names Celia. She was reported dead and the last of her kind. Her life is still lived on. “a team of reproductive physiologists led by José Folch injected nuclei from those cells into goat eggs emptied of their own DNA,” (Zimmer). 57 were implanted yet only seven were reported pregant. After those 7 were reported pregnant, six had miscarriages. The one that survived died after ten minutes from entering the world. Animal cloning has a far aways to go, but they are close to finding a solution.
Animal cloning might sound like a good and successful idea to fix extinction; however, the success rate is at a low. According to the article “What are the Risks of Cloning?”, the success rate ranges from 0.1 percent
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Over three years ago a man named Dr. Phillip Dupont decided to clone his doberman-catahoula mix dog. He loved his dogs and he was turning 70 years old so he decided to spend his money to get his dog, Melvin, cloned. “He paid the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea more than $100,000 to create a copy of Melvin,” (Landman). He created two clones of his dog, Ken and Harvey. It is not as unpopular as you think, “Sooam says it’s produced about 80 dogs for Americans since 2007,” (Landman). They state it costs $50,000 for puppies and $25,000 for kittens. Cloning is not only for endangered species but also for people who just love their
For the longest time, in our history and modern times, people have thought of animals as friends and even sometimes sacred beings. Cloning would allow you to keep your friend back from the dead as a new being. The article states that certain labs are using cloning to help bring back endangered species, as well. This is important because there are many animal species that are endangered, soon
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.
First, cloning is a bad thing because most things that undergo cloning have many medical disorders and die an early death. On https://listontap.com/10-reasons-human -cloning-bad-society-large/ they gave marvelous examples why. It took exactly 277 eggs to make a clone of Dolly. That shows how little attempt at cloning fail. Another thing is Many cloned animals have under formed hearts lungs and other organs. That just goes to show how cloning animals is not very practical for the animals only live around half the lifespan of their breed of animal. Take Dolly's clone her clone died at, 6 years old, half of what sheep of her breed live. Over all cloning is mostly unsuccessful.
Pet cloning is our future and our present. Though it doesn't make it right. Cloning for instance, cost thousands. Not only expensive, it puts the carrier animal severe pain. It also gives the clone a higher risk of getting diseases. Just ask Dolly the sheep, if she didn’t die at a young age. Cloning may seem like a good thing but over all it is not for many reasons.
Many people believe cloning is unethical and unusful. These individuals believe that cloning should not be practiced, because it infringes upon their beliefs. They see cloning as a last resort and do not trust the science of cloning. “Several governments have considered or enacted legislation to slow down, limit or ban cloning experiments outright” (Freudenrich 5). Many people think that cloning a species is a very unideal situation, because it uses loose policies. However the many benefits of cloning far outway the few disadvantages. Cloning endangered species is beneficial to saving most species around the world, in countries like the United States and China,
Many Americans do not understand how risky it will be to clone a human, not to mention how hard it is to clone an animal. Many news article and publications offer this information to the public, because many scientists will not address the media with the real facts. In an article titled, “Creator of cloned sheep, Dolly, says he wouldn’t want to make copies of humans”, Dr. Wilmut stresses that only 1-5% of those embryos used in cloning result in live animals, and survivors are plagued with obesity, kidney problems and other troubles, and even Dolly is suffering from arthritis (1). Most cloned animals, like cows, pigs, goats, sheep, die during embryonic development, and others are stillborn with monstrous abnormalities. Bloated mothers have laborious miscarriages, and occasionally die themselves. The clones usually struggle for air in intensive care units, only to have to be euthanized, the process of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, according to an MSNBC article titled, “Much confusion over cloning” (1). The risks and uncertainties associated with the current technological state of cloning are the basis for why
This shows that cloning can help bring back and restore populations of animals that are in extinct or in danger of extinction..
Equally, some people might consider closing their pets. Pets are one of the things that humans enjoy having around. Some people need them for medical purposes and their are some that just have them for company. People who have pets that need them for medical purposes and then their pet dies igt can be very difficult specially if they don't have family or friends it can turn into a depressing situation. Cloning can help bring their best friend back to life and create another one just like it. For example, people who have speaking problems like stutters it might be difficult for them to talk to people but talking to their pets is real easy and for them to suddenly get their friend taken away can be tough. Even people who just have regular pets are willing or have considered in cloning their pet. In ¨Here, Kitty-Kitty- Kitty- Kitty,¨ Hawthorne stated that studies show that a quarter of the 60 million pet-owning household would consider cloning their furry friends. People are now willing to spend money on their
I read an article about animals cloning before, and I was surprised how much money it costs someone to clone, like they’re not even sure if the cloned pet will be exactly like the real one, And I don’t believe it’s normal because of course they’ll add hormones and genes that’ll become so unreal that it may be obvious. For example, a
Many cloned animals have deformities such as an abnormally large size, which endangers the lives of the surrogate mothers carrying them. The causes of the low success rate of cloning are uncertain, but it is likely that it is due to the inadequate reprogramming of the genes of the adult cell by the unfertilized egg. SOCIAL RELEVANCE There will be many different impacts on society if the government’s decides to ban, or not to ban animal cloning.
Today’s technology develops so quickly that many impossible things become true; the example is cloning technology. Cloning is a process used to create an exact copy of a mammal by using the complete genetic material of a regular body cell. Different from the common propagate, cloning needs only one cell and without sex. Cloning, as of recent years, has become a very controversial issue in society but cloning can have several positive effects for the well being of society. Many people in society believe that scientists should develop a clone human but many people and especially the government are against human cloning. Hundreds of
Many ethical and moral dilemmas arise when discussing human cloning, and one can have many positions for and against each. To understand the issues surrounding human cloning, one must have a basic
In the advanced technological world we live in today, we’ve made things possible that our ancestors may have only dreamed of. Our remarkable advances in the field of science have allowed us to make cloning possible. But as with all new discoveries, it not only poses as a beneficial advancement, but some might even say, a threatening one. To understand why it would seem harmful or unjust would mean to understand the concepts of cloning and how it is viewed in society. Cloning has the potential to revolutionize the field of medicine, the meat and dairy industry and animal conservation, leaning it more towards its positive aspects than negative ones.
Cloning is an amazing complex thing! In this paper a person will learn some basic cloning information, the history of cloning, good and bad things about cloning, human cloning, and bringing back endangered species with the use of cloning. Information includes the processes and some animals that have been cloned. The history includes the different cloning achievements starting with the first artificial twin. The good and bad parts will of course talk about the pros and cons of cloning. Human cloning tells what is the use of it and how people feel about it. The last part talks about the possibility of using cloning to protect endangered species, and if it would be enough to help the population. If cloning is used right it could change the world. It could help people to determine ways of curing diseases and viruses. It could help farmers produce stronger and leaner cattle. Many people in todays society have heard of cloning and think of putting something in one machine and another one comes out the other machine, but that’s not even close to how it actually works. A better story would be Dolly the sheep. Dolly was the first mammal made through the process of somatic nuclear transfer, and was cloned from an adult sheep udder cell (The History Of Cloning). Cloning is one thing that is rarely talked about on the news, but could be used in so many ways to change the world as we know it.
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.