Friday, March 25, 2011
Cloning Pets
As I was reading the article I was thinking if I would want another copy of my dog after he was gone. As a pet owner I can understand why many people want to clone their pets but is it a good idea to clone a pet and pretend like it's the same one? It's good that science has improved over time and they reached to a point where it is possible to do something like that. I'm sure that everyone has different opinions about this article personally I wouldn't want to clone my pet and pretend like it's my dog. It's not possible because my dog is unique even if science can make a duplicate copy of it's physical traits what about the personality, so how can I even pretend like my dog is still with me after cloning him? I would rather live with the memories I created with my dog then to live with the new fake version of my dog. If I were to die tomorrow I wouldn't want my parents to clone me and live with someone that looks like me. So, the fact is that a pet can be cloned but it is never the original pet we once loved. So if someone is still willing to this after knowing all the information then there is nothing wrong with that.
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I came to the same conclusion about the article, myself. I think about the difference in how genes are manifest. There are different environmental situations that effect how an animal looks. Even with the same genetic material, the new personality inherited by the cloned animal may result in a different body type completely. I.e. in a silly example, the new personality of the animal might want to run around more, which would affect the muscular build of the animal. Even in the article it said that the cloned cat CC had a completely different coat color than the cat it was cloned from.
ReplyDeleteTo tell you the truth, I don't really understand why people would want to clone their animal instead of getting a whole new one of the same breed...It seems like they're getting a whole new, extra expensive, animal, anyways, regardless of "cloning".