CRISPR Research Paper

The way we are supposed to be able to bring back extinct species is by using a way that scientists found called “CRISPR” tecnology. Obviously “CRISPR” is an acronym, but for what? Well CRISPR means: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. We may even be able to use the same prosess to bring animals out of endangerment. There are some benefits to bringing them back too! (i’m not gonna count ‘because it would be cool’, but I Mean, how cool would it be to just have a huge wooly mammoth walking around!) A couple of the benefits are that it could help technological advances by helping scientists discover things about animals that they could not POSSIBLY find out before and in turn helping out with genetic engineering.

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are certain species of animals that would help science the most by bringing back such as the wooly mammoth or the passenger pigeon. First let's talk about what these animals are, the wooly mammoth went extinct about 4,000 years ago, it is like an elephant in some ways, it is related to the elephant and WAS the elephant of its time, it was big, more than likely had tusks, but instead of having hard skin it had hair or wool. The passenger pigeon went extinct on September 1, 1914, only 102 years ago! The passenger pigeon was a bird that was native to North America, and supposedly got its name from a french word, that word was “passager”, which translates to passing, or brief, most likely thanks to the way this bird migrated. The way that these creatures could help is to help understand other animals from their time better.

But sadly, there are some bad things that could or most likely also WILL happen. Number one would be the fact of, the human race. The thing with this would be that people could use these “new” animals for certain purposes, such as transport of goods, making money off of their fur or meat, this is how the passenger pigeon died. People would use them for cheap meat, which wouldn’t have been a problem had it not been everyone. Number two would be health, what I mean by this is that these animals could bring back possibly deadly diseases from way back when that went extinct, that might not sound that bad...think of ebola, or cancer, now multiply that by about 6. That’s how bad it could be. Number 3 is that the species would be old, but, in a way, new. This means that these species could be invasive to the animals that we have now, their habitat and food preferences have changed which means that their roles in the environments could have changed, this could be potentially dangerous to the animals and environment.
That is why we should bring back extinct species, reason one is that it could help genetic engineering, two is that it could help science in multiple ways, number three, it could help scientists learn about animals from the past when these new ones were alive and in turn bring THOSE animals back to life and then repeat the process, and sure, there are some bad things that could happen but if we are careful enough, and we do controlled tests, do enough research, then we could avoid these problems, and either way there are