The Pros And Cons Of Animal Cloning

Animal cloning has been developing rapidly since 1996, when the first mammal, Dolly, was born. Dolly was a product of a series of experiments seeking to produce large transgenic animals that secrete therapeutically useful proteins in their milk (Klotzko). Animal cloning started in 1885 when scientist separated the different cells from a sea urchin(the history of cloning). Animal cloning has lead scientist to new discoveries such as how to prevent illnesses like muscular dystrophy (“Cloning Dolly Sheep”). Cloning could help illnesses but scientist have yet to find a cure for these diseases. Since dolly, scientist have cloned other animals such as cats, rabbits,horses, donkeys and pigs as well as more sheep. Cloning dolly took over 277 attempts

Animal cloning has developed greatly to where scientist are trying to clone humans now. It could cost more than 1000 dollars per egg, 50,000 dollars for the donor and for one animals (patient) it could cost over 100,000 dollars (Herper). Cloning cost a lot of money because scientist have to collect the DNA from the animal that they are trying to clone, and scientist have insert that into the animal that is going to give birth. For example, cloning dolly the sheep cost 100,000 dollars in 1996 and would be much more expensive now in 2018. Cloning not only cost a lot of money but it could fail after wasting all of that money (Herper). "For instance, it has been used in goats that secrete insulin in their milk."Whether or not cloning would be adopted quickly depended on the

Failure rates of animal cloning have been going on for a long time. Dolly the sheep had 177 failures and many as well as many other animals (Koalat). Scientist are aware that this could potentially fail but they keep trying to potentially one day have successful clones and to not have many failures.On average, only 1 to 4 percent of the animals clones live, that mean that the majority die or fail. That means that twenty-five percent of the animals cloned survives (Koalat). The few that lived long enough to be transferred to a monkey's uterus died soon afterward. Dr. Dominko said she transferred 50 embryos. But, she said, ''we never obtained a single pregnancy (Koalat). Many research places such as this one have encountered many similar outputs. Cloning puts animals at the risk of dying and having health problems. once the cloning of Dolly the sheep had abated, a large number of people began to express skepticism cloning. “In a society that values individual freedom above all else, it is hard to find any legitimate basis for restricting the use of reprogenetics” (Klotzko). It is hard for humans to wrap their heads around the idea of cloning animals. Cloning animals have caused such confusion towards this cause that humans have began to be skeptical. cloning technology is potentially highly useful, so researchers keep trying (Kolat. The reason why researchers keep searching for new ways to clone is