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Imagine seeing dinosaurs or other extinct animals roaming the world. Instead of going to museums to see motionless statues of them, see them alive and living! While this may be a bizarre concept, scientists have found a way to clone and make animals by just having a single strand or data of DNA. For example, if they happen to find a strand of hair from a wooly mammoth, scientists can actually create the creature. Cloning should be legalized because it can be used for many propitious purposes, from medical research, to bringing back endangered species, to cloning embryonic stem cells for medical uses, to cloning animals that contain meat for food, and cloning human body parts for people in case they have problems in such areas.

Endangered species can be cloned to bring back their population. According to Jose Jaramillo, a scientist from the University of Texas, “Cloning might be one of the most providential instruments for saving endangered species (Jaramillo).” In July 1998, three scientists from the University of Hawaii successfully cloned fifty mice since of October 1997. Their p...

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