• Why Therapeutic Cloning and Endangered Animal Cloning Should Be Allowed?

     

    Essays1 Biology, Ethics

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Published: 08.05.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Why Therapeutic Cloning and Endangered Animal Cloning Should Be Allowed?', 1.
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Reproductive cloning of endangered animals should be allowed for many reasons. If scientists were to clone embryos of endangered animals and freeze those embryos, scientists could succeed in cloning endangered animals. All around the world scientists have cloned endangered animals by using surrogate mothers of the same animal family as that of the endangered animals. Imagine if our national symbol, the eagle, would become extinct because America didn?t legalize cloning for endangered animals. That would outrage many Americans. Moreover, the whole ecosystem would fail because some animals and plants depend on those animals that are most endangered. Since scientists have successfully cloned endangered animals already in several countries, we can restore the animals that have been damaged by the polluted wild-life habitat. …

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