IN my opinion, the resurrection of extinct animals through cloning would be a very extraordinary and fantastic possibility. To have mammoths and Tasmanian tigers wander the earth once more is just mind blowing. But there are obvious problems with cloning. We have to consider the effects on the ecosystem as well as society, how we would treat these animals and how they would survive on this Earth that is quite different from how it was.There is the problem of funding, of technology, possibility of failure, of creating a species that would have genetic diversity and how society would react to such a monumental change in our environment.
Funding such a massive and arduous project would cost millions if not billions of dollars. We must consider if using taxpayers money to create such a project would be worthwhile and whether could we handle the consequences. There is also the matter of technology of which is mainly experimental at this time. The devices which are used to clone animals are not ready to create extinct animals such as the mammoth without further extensive research.
The cost of failure could be considered by the wider society as too excessive to afford to fund and the product of the experiments at this time may put off the general population from supporting cloning any further. Cloning a species would also require multiple samples from different animals to create diversity to create the animal more adaptable and more diverse to be able to conform with its surroundings. Cloning from a single sample from a single animal would result in the clones having the same genetic makeup and will have no genetic variance which would make it more susceptible to its surroundings.
Society would have the final call whether or not the cloning of extinct animals will go ahead. They would think about how it would affect them, how much money they would have to pay, how much space the animals would take, what this research would achieve and how it would benefit them. It would be expected to have world-wide controversy as there was with Dolly the sheep and could disrupt work on cloning for quite some time.
The animals could affect the ecosystem in monumental ways that could not be understood such as their food source, their habitats, effect on humans and the human effects on them. There are several problems that need to be thought over and fixed before we rush in and create something we won't be able to control. While the idea may be amazing, we first need to learn how to support these animals before we can produce them.
Funding such a massive and arduous project would cost millions if not billions of dollars. We must consider if using taxpayers money to create such a project would be worthwhile and whether could we handle the consequences. There is also the matter of technology of which is mainly experimental at this time. The devices which are used to clone animals are not ready to create extinct animals such as the mammoth without further extensive research.
The cost of failure could be considered by the wider society as too excessive to afford to fund and the product of the experiments at this time may put off the general population from supporting cloning any further. Cloning a species would also require multiple samples from different animals to create diversity to create the animal more adaptable and more diverse to be able to conform with its surroundings. Cloning from a single sample from a single animal would result in the clones having the same genetic makeup and will have no genetic variance which would make it more susceptible to its surroundings.
Society would have the final call whether or not the cloning of extinct animals will go ahead. They would think about how it would affect them, how much money they would have to pay, how much space the animals would take, what this research would achieve and how it would benefit them. It would be expected to have world-wide controversy as there was with Dolly the sheep and could disrupt work on cloning for quite some time.
The animals could affect the ecosystem in monumental ways that could not be understood such as their food source, their habitats, effect on humans and the human effects on them. There are several problems that need to be thought over and fixed before we rush in and create something we won't be able to control. While the idea may be amazing, we first need to learn how to support these animals before we can produce them.