Cloning

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.