Taking a Look at Animal Cloning

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The thought of cloning an animal was once thought to be a fictional idea, only to have been believed by true crazies. Animal cloning has advanced greatly since Hans Dreisch cloned the first ever animal in 1885. There are many different ways and reasons that animal cloning has been produced. The range of cloned animals vary from sea urchins, frogs, fish, salamanders, mice all the way up to sheep, cows and even dogs and cats. There are a few different ways cloning is done with animals. The animal’s can either be reproductively, therapeutically or gene cloning. The use of Animal cloning has many beneficial uses. Cloning can bring an endangered species population back up to a sustainable number or even bring back the image of a deceased family pet. The once fictional idea of producing an identical copy of an animal is now becoming an essential and relatively common practice for the common household.
Animal cloning has not just been a recent step for science, but has been happening for centuries. Cloning does not refer to just artificial creation of an animal, but can be produced naturally. Identical twins are considered to be natural clones. Identical twins are produced when a fertilized egg splits into more then one embryo that carries identic DNA. Identical twins may have nearly the same genetic makeup as each other, but differ genetically from their parents. (”Cloning”) When cloning does not occur naturally it must be created artificially.
There are several types of cloning that are done to produce or alter the future of how an animal may develop. The first type of cloning is reproductively cloned. The process of being reproductively cloned is a rather simple process. This type of cloning uses a technique called somatic...

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...it will be the same personality wise.Cloning which was thought to be a impossible task, unbelievably has now become usable for anyone capable of affording it.
Animal cloning has advanced extremely quickly from the first cloned animal in 1885. There have been many types and reasons that cloning has impacted the scientific community. Cloning can either produce multiple offspring’s from an original egg that would only produce one. It has also been used to fight and replace destroyed tissues and even to bring back the image of a long loved family pet. While cloning remains a difficult enterprise with a success rate of about 5 to 7 percent (“Cloning Animals is Latest Weapon to Fight Wildlife Extinction”) scientist are still trying to improve their cloning abilities. Animal cloning has affected medical practices and will always be beneficial to the science community.

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