The Pleistocene epoch spanned from 1.8 million years ago to 10,000 years ago [1]. Many genera and even species such as conifers, mosses, flowering plants, insects, mollusks, birds, and mammals from that era still survive today [1]. Others, such as the long-horned bison, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and the mammoth did not survive [1]. The woolly mammoth was commonly found during the last ice age [2]. These animals were similar in size to today’s elephants but were adapted for living in
De-Extinction of Animals by Scientific Means Years ago, species such as the Pyrenean Ibex, Passenger Pigeon, and the Wooly Mammoth used to roam the very same earth that we humans walk today. These species, along with many others have gone extinct over the course of time and now only fossils remain. However, Scientists are using biotechnology in an attempt to bring these species back from the dead. This process is known as de-extinction. De-Extinction, also known as resurrection biology, is the
"Bioethics" has been used in the last 21 years to describe the investigation and study of ways in which advance in medicine and science impact upon our health, lives, society and environment. Bioethics is concerned with questions about basic human values and the rightness or wrongness of certain developments in life technology and medicine. These days when technology advancement allowed scientist to conduct test which may have “uncertain” consequences like Cloning. It’s necessary that people should
I recently read your article “stuff the tiger-long live extinction”, published on 10 June 2007 by The Sunday Times. The points you make I find are too harsh or unrealistic in my point of view. There for I am writing this letter to help you understand that there are different opinions about this topic and I am writing against your point of view. Did you know in the 20th century, the tiger population has been reduced from 100,000 to 3,500? This means that 97 per cent of the world’s tiger population
Bringing Them Back to Life, an article written by Carl Zimmer for National Geographic April 2013 edition, discusses the possibilities in modern science to clone and revive species that have been driven to extinction in the past ten thousand years (445). Throughout this article, the author makes use of the rhetorical devices logos, ethos, and pathos to argue to an audience that humans have an obligation to revive species which have been driven to extinction directly due to human influences. Though
during January 2000. An animal species known as the Pyrenean Ibex was confirmed to be extinct however scientists have attempted to clone DNA from the remaining females before the species went extinct. This led to a problem if the scientists successfully created the ibex: the species will continue to be extinct do to the lack of a cloned male as technology was not quite advanced yet. The cloning project happened anyway and during the project, only one ibex managed to be born alive, however it died 7 minutes
the animals going to eat? This would be a hindrance to the food chain. Not only that, but cloning animals is not a sufficient use of our time. The article, “First Extinct-Animal Clone Created” states that an extinct animal, a Pyrenean ibex, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex, had been brought back to life using cloning for the first time and died minutes after birth. This just goes to show that using technology can result in so many different errors and will just result in a waste of time and money
De-extinction is a process that has been experimented with for many years, but has never been completely successful. The ethics and consequences of this idea have been questioned but, de-extinction has the potential to be truly helpful to humans and the environment, and many of the scenarios that people think could happen, are actually impossible. To actually revive a species, there are certain conditions that must be met, and the terrible situations that people think could happen, are unable to
Is cloning animals ethical? Cloning animals is ethical, cloned animals live healthy and happy lives. Cloned animals live slightly shorter lives. Should cloned animals be cloned for meat? So what are clones? Clones are exact genetic copies of a DNA donor. Clones look exactly like the DNA donors. Cloned animals have small health problems. Clones have larger organs than normal animals. Which can lead to breathing problems. Many clones die young. The first clone, Dolly the Sheep died of water
extinction. These animals were declared extinct in 2011. This has happened because of poaching and major demand for rhino horns. The Pyrenean ibex is another example. This wild goat became extinct in 2000. This population was thinned by hunting. In 2009, scientists were able to clone a female using DNA they had earlier gathered from its skin, but due to lung defects, the pyrenean ibex died shortly after
As humans pollute the Earth on a daily basis, some want to de-extinct animals—bringing back animals through scientific processes—however, results of this would be unpredictable and costly. De-extinction has many pros and cons. For instance, de-extinction is beneficial because it lets us study more about how those animals lived and, in a way, be payback for our reckless and unthoughtful actions back then. Yet, it can be consequential because the process costs much more than current attempts to protect
Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech, the audience will have learned about the history of animal cloning, how cloning can save endangered species throughout the world, a very large supply of livestock available for consumers, and how the medical field can greatly benefit from cloning development. Central Idea: Cloning should be an area of study that we pay more attention to and should support in order to reap the benefits of this technology. Introduction I. (Attention Getter) “If you stood
Should Extinct Species Be Brought Back to Life? Imagine ten or fifteen years from now, you are walking through the Bronx Zoo and you see a Wooly Mammoth, a Tasmanian Tiger, a Pyrenean Ibex, and a Passenger Pigeon. How cool would that be? Over the past few decades, many people have fantasized about reviving extinct species long before Hollywood even embedded this idea into our collective consciousness with the 1993 blockbuster, Jurassic Park. Ever since, there has been lots of controversy about the
The world is constantly advancing with each and every passing day. What many people do not realize is that cloning occurs all around them in nature every day. A clone only means that it is an exact genetic copy of the original DNA organism. However, with new and modern day technology, scientists such as Dr. Richard Seed have been able to take cloning further than what was thought possible. Dr. Richard Seed used studies and experiments in the ambition to reverse the aging process (Simon 1). Even though