Persuasive Essay On Cloning Animals

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If a person loves an animal. They have the option to clone their pet. Scientist have been cloning animals for many years. Only a few cloned animals have been successful and only a few survive. Cloned animals can have birth defects, their temperament is different and it cost a lot and requires a lot of resources. Although, cloning your deceased pet would help with depression, adopting would be more efficient. If the animal was tame and gentle before the cloning and it isn’t after it is cloned, that’s because of their temperament. Blue, a dog who is deceased, had to be put down because he was a potential threat to his owner and anyone who came near him. After an animal is cloned it won’t be an exact copy of the original. “That’s because an …show more content…

Dolly, a sheep, is the first cloned mammal created. She was born twenty years ago and died six years later from osteoarthritis. Dolly had joint and lung problems reminiscent of old age. When researchers examined the length of her telomeres, they found biological age surpassed her chronological age. “Some worried that this meant clones would age prematurely, carrying the same biological clock as the adult cells they’d been created from,” evidence article 2 says. To clone an animal is cost over $100,000, it also requires a lot of time and resources. Only one animal is successfully cloned out of dozens of other failed attempts. There is no guarantee that the animal would be a success, therefore, it would be a waste of time, money and resources. Why would someone want to waste so much when there is such a little chance of successfulness? There must be better ways to spend $100,000. Should you clone your pet? Well, that’s up to the individual. There are many dogs and other animals that need to be adopted, which would be a cheaper, faster, and more guaranteed. Another way, other than cloning, is to stuff your deceased pet. You can mount your animal so they can always be with

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