Question

Mention the advantages and disadvantages of cloning.

Answer 1

• 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 the disease and have a high mortality rate.
•  It might compromise human health through the 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 the occurrence of genetic disorders in animals.
• More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring.