First they cloned a sheep at some institute in Scotland, now I saw on a America news channel that they have done a horse!!!!
Do you think this sort of behaviour is acceptable in scientist?
And have there been any other cases of animal cloning?
2006-07-31 05:43:59 · 25 answers · asked by wave 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Cloning is meddling with nature.To day cloning may not be succesful.But tomarrow scientists will succeed.Cloning will defnitely upset the ecological balance.Animals or man with undesirable features can be cloned.You create an animal which will drink petrol and let loose in Arab countries,they will be finished.Genetic engineering and cloning may have diastrous effects.Think of Muslims cloning and creating thousands of Osamas?
2006-07-31 18:09:30 · answer #1 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is fuelled by agricultural needs to produce animals (and plants) with ever greater yield from limited land and food requirements. Or in the case of the horse, to be able to clone racing champions which to my mind is akin to using performance enhancing drugs in human sports. I personally believe there is no ethical use for artificially cloned animals, and it will lead us down a road to cloning humans for military or spare parts. Cloning crops is already done, but this is in response to an increasing human population with a now very limited ability to adequately provide food for everyone (politics aside).
2006-07-31 06:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by Allasse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it could be a great tool for use when say your liver is damaged or someone needs a heart transplant (like on the movie The Island) but it kinda brings up moral questions like if that person has a soul. If they could keep it at cloning organs then sure it's cool. But knowing this government they would use it diabolicly (like try to replace a foreign leader). It's too much responsibility for anyone to have.
2006-07-31 05:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by jmdavis333 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any more moral problems with cloning that I do with artificial insemination. And yes, multiple different types of animals have been cloned. There is even one company out there who will clone your aging family dog.
2006-07-31 05:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is okay so far as it is used for the best of humanity, Human beings are above animals and should not think and do like animals. No animal should be used for satisfying the cruel mentality of a man, they should be used only to find out something better for the humanity as a whole.
2006-07-31 05:48:56 · answer #5 · answered by Jaffs G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think it's fine... did you know cloned animals don't always turn out exactly the same as the mother?
2006-07-31 05:53:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, there are countless cloning experiments, only few were successful, and even then, the clone was irregular and died young.
it is not that bad, just wrong to do to the clone, the thing is born in a lab, and is missing DNA and such.
2006-07-31 05:46:43 · answer #7 · answered by sobrien 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In animal cloning, it's called clinical reasearch. In human cloning, it's called inhumane
2006-07-31 05:47:38 · answer #8 · answered by Jay Vee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. and if they start to clone cows, then we could potentially have an end to world hunger. human body parts could be cloned, too, so people would no longer have to wait for years for an organ donor.
2006-07-31 06:47:25 · answer #9 · answered by King Tex 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cloning will blow up in the face of mankind.
2006-07-31 05:48:17 · answer #10 · answered by Phrosty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋