Pros And Cons Of Animal Cloning

There have been recent studies on animals where the scientist cloned the animals. Cloning is something many people are split on. Some say it is bad some say it is good. I think cloning is a bad thing. Cloning can be a bad thing in many ways. I will be covering some of those ways in this paper.

We should clone endangered and extinct animals because they can help cure diseases that we don’t know how to do today or that we don't have the ability to do today. It is a good idea to clone animals because

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.

. Cloning could prove helpful in the research of genetics. Using cloning technologies, genetic researchers would have a better understanding of genes. Researchers could gain the ability to alter genetics in order to clone humans and

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 is a problem that many of us unknowingly approve of every day. Hundreds of innocent animals are dying and suffering due to animal cloning experiments.

Cloning your pet, or any other animal, may seem like a thing of the future. Until now, scientists have developed a way to clone animals including your deceased pet. Cloning is a tricky task to perform. In most cases only one out of every 277 cloned embryos is successfully born. On top of that it is also a very expensive procedure costing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to execute. Even though, it is an amazing scientific feat.

Even though the website is not a peer-reviewed journal or article and does not provide proper references, it provides accurate, though old, information about cloning. The information specified can be backed up by a peer-reviewed article (Bowring, 2004), but as references are missing this website does not qualify as a highly suitable website. Furthermore the information given is moderately old, as for example; the list of cloned animals misses to mention the cloning of a dog, which was successfully achieved in 2005 (Levine, 2009). Proper referencing and peer reviewing could have helped to make this website more credible but with those factors missing the “Cloning Fact Sheet” website only qualifies as a moderately proper website and is therefore ranked as number 3.

Just imagine if scientists cloned an endangered or even an extinct animal. If they ever cloned an extinct animal, the world will be like Jurassic Park in real life. All the dinosaurs and extinct plants that inhabit the earth before all of us were even created would be able to come back. That would be really insane. I chose this benefit because it really caught my attention. Think about all the possibilities if this ever happened. But what is required to be able to do this? According to Apecsec.org, “Genetic engineering is required to clone extinct animals. The field of genetic engineering is just in its infancy stage. By focusing on bringing back extinct animals, we could develop technologies that would help treat genetic diseases and mutations that occur in humans.” (Apecsec). With genetic engineering we will be able to clone endangered and extinct animals. Other researchers say, “With the modern technology nowadays, it is possible to address the problem of endangered species, or even recreate the extinct species of animals.” (Occupytheory). Teachers could use the animals they clone in science classes when they teach about them. In the article, “Pros and Cons of Animal Cloning”, scientists can pick and choose the best specimen for the process. Scientists in Midlothian, Scotland, cloned a sheep they named Dolly. Dolly was the first animal to be successfully cloned by a process of nuclear transfusion

mammoths living so scientists are using the Asian Elephant which has a similar genetic makeup. They have completed the cloning possess but the mammoth only lived for about a minute. Scientists are also using cloning technology to revive endangered species. This can help save beloved animals facing eradication. This type of cloning can and is being used on wild cats and many other species.

For the past few years, scientists have been working on a cloning experiment. Cloning is where one thing is taken and and another one is made. One just like it. Mostly, animals have been cloned. They have been cloned with many fails, and some success.

Cloning could prevent an animal from going extinct. When a species is endangered, scientists can make clones of them to prevent extinction. Some point out that when cloning animals, the animals have more deformities at birth, and are more likely to die. Both cloned and non-cloned animals can have deformities or die at birth regardless if they are cloned or not, and as time progresses scientists can experiment more and eradicate this problem all together by researching and practicing cloning more. Cloning can benefit animals greatly, for example, scientists cloning animals to keep them from becoming extinct, which is why cloning should be

A few decades ago people dreamed of cloning their lost pets, but now that has become a reality. Cloning is a practice in which a replica or copy is created from the original. There are three types of cloning: therapeutic, reproductive, and recombinant (Driscoll). These three different types of cloning vary depending on the situation and can recreate almost any living organism. The first successful clone was a sheep named Dolly in 1997 (Badertscher). Although cloning offers many benefits in the medical field as well as bringing back lost animals, there are many drawbacks such as flaws in the cloning process and the problems with the morality. Cloning should be legal in the United States, but there should be also be restrictions implemented.

We have to recognize that there are real ethical dilemmas when dealing with animal issues and animal experimentation in general and a myriad of ways in which science can be used for a monstrous purpose. Cloning is still an imperfect science and is potentially dangerous for animals involved including the

Have you ever lost a pet and been so heartbroken you couldn’t speak and just wanted it back? Well now scientists can clone an exact physical copy of your pet. Though for everyone who likes this idea there is another who is against it.