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    There are some people that have been very anxious with cloning because they believe it is something new, but in reality it was introduced in the 1950s. It started with cloning food and has moved onto cloning animals. It has been successful on many different cases and a famous one is the cloning of a sheep named Dolly. Dolly lived to be six and a half years old and she had six kids. People believe that cloning should be illegal but we believe that scientists should clone endangered or extinct species

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    Diagram 1 Source: Park & Wildlife Service 2010 Diagram 2 Source: David Bressan 2011 BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Have you ever wonder that can thylacine be brought back to live? How? Scientist had succeeded in cloning other animals such as sheep and is said that it is possible to clone an extinct animal (Museum Victoria N.D). Steps to resurrect the Thylacine: 1) Extraction of broken and fragment DNA Extract the DNA from the cells of the preserved thylacine joey. DNA is also collected form tooth specimens

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    Animal cloning is a big controversy in modern media and in the medical field. Animal cloning benefits many people. Animal cloning is very interesting, you can clone your long lost family pet, you can resurrect extinct animals, and it offers medical breakthroughs. I think it should be practiced more and made more available to the public. Animal cloning has been proved successful on July 5,1996 the first animal was cloned. It was a female sheep named Dolly, so animal coning is an effective practice

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    What is Wrong with Animal Cloning The world of science fiction came to life in 1997, when the first successful attempt at animal cloning occurred. Dolly the sheep became famous worldwide, and sent the scientific community into a tizzy. However, animal cloning is unethical and wrong, due to the failures, side effects, uses of clones, and the possibility of future human cloning. But to understand this topic more clearly, some basic information must be given. First of all, there are many different

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    Case Study 2: Animal Cloning Organism: Moa (Dinornithidae) and Sheep (Ovis aries) The first successful mammal was cloned in the form of Dolly the sheep in 1996. She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived there until her death when she was six years old. Animal cloning refers to the production of genetically identical whole organisms, or ‘clones’. This is carried out with the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer. Cloning is designed to quickly and efficiently to produce

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    Six deaths have to be made before perfection. Cloning dead or alive animals is wrong. Death is not something people should be messing with. Death happens for a reason. When an animal is cloned it won’t come out the same as your old dog. It may have birth defects, its behavior will be different, and plus it’s very expensive to do. It takes multiple puppies to get the cloning process correct. Which is usually around 5-6 puppies. (Lewis 22) Some puppies are born with thick muscles in their necks

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    In order to solve this issue of animal cloning for scientific and personal reasons people must be aware of the costs and results. Many people do not know the more in depth information about this topic and if more people did research and saw that animal cloning is wrong and should not be seen as beneficial then it would just add to the growing number of people against it. There are countless websites and organizations against the issue with lots of facts and ways to spread the word. One website wrote

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    was more orange and Rainbow was more black (“Why Clone” par. 14). The reason for this is that when cloning animals there is a chance that the clone will have a different look because of which chromosomes are turned off while they are developing (“Why Clone” par. 16). This one though was one of many different animals that have been cloned many of them pets and to this day there have been 12 cloned animal, 3 of which were endangered, but they are

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    trying to awake the female dog you realize It is asleep eternally. This is only one death out of the thousands from cloning pets. Cloning pets not only kills female animals it also gives them extreme stress. I believe that cloning pets is uncompassionate and unethical. Why waste the lives of ten dogs just, so yours can come back, it is self-indulgent and absurd. When cloning your pet it may look the same as the one before, but it’s personality changes. One example of this happening was when

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    Cloning Animals

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    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. There are many factors that play a role in the extinction of a species, such as overharvesting and overhunting, disease and introducing new predators and food competitors. The passenger pigeon, a species scientists are trying to clone, were hunted to

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