Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals

·                     Offers benefits for clinical trials and medical research. It can help in the production of proteins and drugs in the field of medicine.

·                     Aids stem cell research.

·                     Animal cloning could help to save endangered species.

·                     Animal and human activists see it as a threat to biodiversity saying that this alters evolution which will have an impact on populations and the ecosystem.

·                     The process is tedious and very expensive.

·                     It can cause animals to suffer.

·                     Reports show that animal surrogates were manifesting adverse outcomes and cloned animals were affected with disease and have high mortality rate.

·                     It might compromise human health through consumption of cloned animal meat.

·                     Cloned animals age faster than normal animals and are less healthy than the parent organism as discovered in Dolly.

·                     Cloning can lead to occurrence of genetic disorders in animals.

·                     More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce a viable offspring.