Cloning

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning. Part of my science homework :)

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  • Created by: KPring
  • Created on: 13-12-13 10:53

Cloning

Advantages

  • meet demand for organ transplants
  • greater understanding of age related disorders
  • help preserve endangered species

Disadvantages

  • reduced gene pool
  • mightn't live as long
  • process often fails
  • clones often have genetic defects
  • Playing God?

Evaluation

One advantage of cloning is the fact that we will be able to meet the demands of organ transplants; many more people are needing transplants each year, and we will be able to meet these demands by cloning healthy organs when and if we need them. As well as this, we will be able to figure out how and why genetic disorders develop, and if age has any bearing, by studying the embryos and a growing clone closely. Also, it could help to preserve endangered species, which is good as we don't want any more species to become extinct.However, there are also disadvantages to cloning. For one thing, clones may not live as long, for example Dolly the sheep only lived for half as long as normal sheep do. As well as this, the cloning process often fails and is expensive to carry out; it took 300 attempts to clone Dolly so it would've cost thousands to keep trying to clone her. Another disadvantage is the fact that people see this a playing God and messing with nature, which they see as a bad thing that is unnatural and shouldn't be done.

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