2006-12-03 17:30:49 · 2 answers · asked by MissCanada_99 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Just a warning: Identifying "select" animals and cloning them en masse could lead to a reduction of the gene pool, which would harm that animals' long term survival of the species.
For example, if everyone wanted a clone of Lassie, instead of just wanting a collie LIKE Lassie, then there would be an unnatural percentage of identical dogs with Lassies unique Genes. This would lead to higher instances of "interbreeding" if the owners of all of these "Lassies" bred their dogs. Even though they are different dogs, their genes are identical, so breeding their offsprings would be like breeding sisters/brothers.
Unchecked, this interbreeding would quickly reduce the "healthy" gene pool and ruin the breed.
2006-12-03 18:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't cats breed well enough on their own?
2006-12-04 17:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋