The question to clone or not to clone is currently center stage of scientific debate. Since the birth of Dolly, the sheep, in 1997 the controversial question of cloning has been paramount throughout the entire globe. The question is no longer whether it can be done, but whether is should be done and to what extent. All of these clonings have led to much criticism and controversy, but the latest attempt at cloning is that of endangered and possibly already extinct species in hopes of preserving them. This short paper will give a brief description of cloning and the pros and cons of preserving endangered and extinct species via means of cloning.
Introduction There are different types of cloning.
Another type of cloning is called Blastomere separation, also known as twinning. However, Dolly, was cloned from only one parent. The procedure itself is fairly straightforward but the number of actual live births attained from this procedure is very low. Most of the cows had spontaneous abortions and one had a very late-term abortion. Next month, November 2000, the first cloned, endangered species is scheduled to be born.