Cloning
They’re many
reasons for cloning some good or bad depends on how you look at it. Many people
don’t know what cloning is use for and why people would want to clone
something. Or what is cloning and how it
is done and we can get back from it.
What is cloning? Basically it is taking some
things such as an animal or something that has DNA and makes a copy of that
animal. Scientists have been cloning animals for many years. In 1952, the first
animal, a tadpole, was cloned. Before the creation of Dolly, the first mammal
cloned from the cell of an adult animal, clones were created from embryonic
cells. Since Dolly, researchers have cloned a number of large and small animals
including sheep, goats, cows, mice, pigs, cats, rabbits, and a gaur (Human Genome Project Imforation , 2009). Scientists have not
been able to clone a human yet. But many animals have been cloned which can help humans out in many ways.
How
Cloning can help humans out it that if we clone animals so that some animals
many never die off. There
will be an endless supply of animals to clone, and we will never run out of
food from animals, because we have been able to clone based on previous efforts
of cloning (Advantages and disadvantages of animal cloning , 2009). Cloning is good
things because we can bring back animals that have died off. We could have big supply
of meat form animals. Cloning animals could help out scientists in cloning a
human. One of
the greatest breakthroughs of all time, cloning has been discovered, something
which could be revolutionary if we use it to our advantage through continuing
on with our research and studies into it, with discoveries that could change
our lives forever (Advantages and disadvantages of
animal cloning , 2009).
Some
of the disadvantages for cloning is that the animals could have hurt or kill
the animals. The meat from the animal could be bad, but you could do something
about that. It will only possess about half the life span of
the normal animal which has been cloned. An example is from the famous
‘Dolly’ previous mentioned which only lived for 6 years, whereas normal
sheep can live up to about 10 years of age, so a great decrease in age (Advantages
and disadvantages of animal cloning , 2009). These things could happen
to the animal but maybe not if they keep trying to make cloning better and
safer for the animals.
Cloning
has a lot of good things and bad things about it. But there is a lot of good
things about it and more to come if we keep trying to clone something easier
and more safe. We could get a lot of the disadvantages with we just keep
trying. So cloning should be more thought about and work on so that it can get
better.
