This article, “Cloning Noah’s Ark,” is about the cloning of endangered species to prevent some animals from disappearing from the planet.
The three authors of this article were Robert P. Lanza, Betsy L. Dresser and Philip
Damiani. According to Scientific American, they all share an interest in reproductive biology and animals. Lanza, the vice president of medical and scientific development at
Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded the South
Meadow Pond and Wildlife Association in Worcester County. Dresser is senior vice president for research at the Audubon Institute and director of the Audubon Institute
Center for Research of Endangered Species and the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species
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Damiani, a research scientist at ACT, is also a member of the
International Embryo Transfer Society’s committee on cryopreservation.
II. Explain the major concepts and points made.
Research done, results, his/her conclusions
III. Your Summation
From this article, I learned a number of different things. I learned how the actual cloning process occurs. I also became aware of many different Endangered Species and other animals that have already become extinct. I also learned that a clone could have been born from an animal other than their own species. For example, a regular house cat gave birth to a cloned tiger. I learned that cloning is very difficult and a long process.....
I feel that the cloning of Endangered Species could be a excellent idea. Human beings have carelessly killed off many innocent living creatures on this planet by hunting them and by creating pollution that end their lives. If the we could prevent the extinction of healthy, harmless animals, we should do it. Cloning is a way to prevent the extinction of animals, and possibly even take them off of the Endangered Species list. Some
...however, with further research, it came to light that this was not just a “unique species” but an entire phyla that was new to science (Adler 2013). Why a new phyla? “What made the creatures seem new is they have no living descendants. They represent entire lineages, major branches on the tree of life, left behind by evolution…” (Adler 2013). While other lineages did survive-actually a collateral predecessor of the vertebrates, and that means us! (Adler 2013).
One of the oft-heard arguments against reproductive cloning is that humans should not be interfering with nature or "playing god". When it comes to endangered species, I am not persuaded. For the past few millennia, and particularly the past century, humans have been the driving force behind the overwhelming majority of species' extinctions. In other words, we have already been very busy playing god.(Nicholls)
Habitat destruction, deforestation, ozone depletion, global warming, and poaching. These actions and ecological happenings are creating a world where animals are going extinct at rapid rates. Our world is on the brink of what scientists believe is the sixth mass extinction. Unlike the five previous mass extinction, the latest one killing a majority of the dinosaurs, the main causes for this current extinction are anthropogenic reasons, not natural events.
Cloning Cloning is a process that creates exact genetic copies of an existing cell. Cloning is a more general term that describes a number of different processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies. The process of cloning can happen either naturally, for instance, when identical twins develop, or it can be induced through synthetic conditions in a laboratory. There are three different types of artificial cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic cloning.
Would clones understand themselves as creations or copies? Would cloning undermine the conception of a human being’s individuality? (Medicines’ Brave New World) Those are two of the most questioned aspects of human cloning. Everyone always wants to be their own person and have their own thought, basically, be as original as they can be. How original can you get when there’s someone out there thinking, doing, and looking exactly like you? Not very original, if you ask me. Human cloning, cloning of any kind, has been looked at as being creepy, scary, immoral, and in the most dismal way, exciting. Cloning of humans should be prohibited because it is offensive to the human life and religion.
Imagine a future where humans are manufactured, a future where humans are created by science, a future where humans are the new lab specimen. Human cloning is like opening Pandora's Box, unleashing a torrent of potential evils but at the same time bringing a small seed of hope. No matter how many potential medical and scientific benefits could be made possible by human cloning, it is unethical to clone humans.
For example, when a taxidermied platypus was first brought back to Britain, scientists were convinced it was fake, created out of body parts of other animals. The reason for it being so unbelievable to them was simply because the platypus had adapted to its environment in such a way that meant there was simply nothing resembling it.
Mayr, Ernst. Populations, Species, and Evolution: An Abridgment of Animal Species and Evolution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970.
1) Robertson, John A. “Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation,” The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 339, no. 2 (July 9, 1998), pp. 119-122.
Many people tend to believe that animals die out from natural causes of lack of food and their homes getting destroyed, but even when there is plenty of food and space to live they can go extinct. An example of that is in September 1914, Martha
As a young child I remembered how excited I was to see all those exotic animals. When I got older I would continue to think of the same thing, however; I would hear how some of those animals are close to extinction. Even if they are not as cute as your average dog or cat, it is still heartbreaking to think that within the next few decades, animals such as tigers, pandas and rhinos could be extinct.
"Endangered Species." UXL Encyclopedia of Science. U*X*L, 2001. Student Resources in Context. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.
The third reason animals are the reason for certain animals extinction is that humans destroy the Earth. Fifty thousand animals die every year from deforestation. One hundred thousand animals die every year from plastic, which we do not throw away the right way. The worst one to me for humans destroy the Earth is that one hundred thousand animals die from animal testings. Humans also kill two hundred million animals per year by hunting, not even for food sometimes but sport. One million animals are killed by cars every day, humans kill animals, that is
To sum up the foregoing, there is big list of animals which are already extinct, and mayabe more which are endangered. Some say that it is cause of human activity, some say that it is natural selection. The fact is that extinction is a natural process, because humans have not been around forever to cause extinction. Nowadays People are dominating on earth and setting up living rules for others, like other dominating animals years ago, and it is not excluded that there will be time when Human will become extintc, by natural selection, by nature will.
In the world today there are about five thousand endangered species. Around one specie dies out every year. Some animals become endangered because people are killing them for their horns, as in the case of the Black Rhino of Africa. Others become extinct because pesticides are put on the food we eat, causing the animals that eat the insects off the plant to become contaminated, which causes their predators to become contaminated, which often affects the shell of that organism?s egg. Here is a list of the endangered species, 91 endangered birds, 76 endangered mammals, 36 endangered reptiles, 21 endangered amphibians, 115 endangered fish, 70 endangered clams, 35 endangered snails, 44 endangered insects, 12 endangered arachnids, 21 endangered crustaceans, 594 endangered flowering plants.