Animal Cloning Essay

“Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs,” this is one of the most memorable lines in the movie Jurassic Park. It is a popular yet haunting movie that introduced the idea of cloning dinosaurs and generally cloning animals. This popularized and suggested the idea that cloning should be avoided and to be feared. Cloning is often questioned as to be morally acceptable in our society. With the technological advancements made so far, there are many human and animal benefits that will be made possible with cloning. Animal cloning can be applied to many different societal needs and desires, while there are limitations the process is still viable. If not today, then tomorrow, there is time to improve and perfect the process. There will be no learning curve if it is only applied to one aspect of creating an identical twin. Cloning will create medical, social, and environmental benefits which outweigh its ethnic disadvantages. Animal cloning should be allowed and regulated for medical and environmental benefits as well as an alternative food source.

Although cloned animals are generally created with good intentions and for research, there many precautions and doubts that limit the use of cloning techniques. Many uncertain factors that affiliate with cloning deters people from understanding the greater benefits. There has always been a fear of technological advancements, as cloning has a bad reputation. People wonder if we should invest a lot of money into cloning since it is very expensive and has a low success rate and low life expectancy of the animal to make traditional clones. Cloning and genetically modified animals currently do not have policies to prote...

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... help scientist and researchers develop treatments. The cloned stem cells can then be develop into an organ which has been successfully done before. A regular clone can also be used for biomedical research. Since cloning provides an identical copy, the animal can be models for diseases. Cloning cannot directly cure the disease in livestock, but it can make a healthy copy before the animal has contracted a disease. It can also create a disease-resistant animal, and later on a herd.

All things considered, cloning has many application that can improve our lifestyles for the better. Animal cloning is becoming more prominent in not only the science field but also medical. There are some disadvantages, but as time goes on more advancements will be made to improve it. It is easy to confuse science fiction with science, when in reality cloning has long time reliability.