Cloning endangered and extinct species
In this next blog I will be talking about cloning endangered species. I think that cloning endangered species is a great idea. One reason I think that cloning endangered species is a good idea because imagine our kids in the future or future generations not knowing how a panda looks like. In China they are trying to clone pandas because they are becoming to be extinct.Chen Dayuan, a senior scientist who specializes in cloning, introduced the idea of cloning pandas in 1998. Also , if you think about the food chain in the wild( it has nothing to due with cloning)if the chain breaks because one of the species go extinct what would happen? Well I don't think we should find out.
Pandas: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7100195.html
Although I think endangered species should be cloned ,I do not approve/think cloning extinct animals should happen. For example, in Japan some colleagues tried to find some kind of sample of DNA of a Woolly Mammoth and they did. They tried to find a sample they did. They just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Do they know what could happen to the world? Were will they keep this mammoth ? If in the wild the food chain will disrupt. Do we have the right climates? What will happen?
Mammoth: http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html
Cloning endangered species is an interesting idea. Is this in the natural cycle of things though? How might this disrupt earth's process? What if in the grand scheme of evolution in order for earth to evolve to a new stage it is necessary that all species be wiped out as happened in the last mass extinctions?
ReplyDeleteThose are all very reasoning questions. Anything could happen if they try to clone endangered species. Although endangered species were once in a large number. The earth did work somehow, but of course the world would've changed its cycle by that time. I also think that they will not make such big numbers, and if they do they might keep them in zoos or somewhere safe.
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