Cloning is the process of making multiple copies of a DNA sequence to form an identical replicate of what is being cloned (Brown, 342). Cloning is a very complex and difficult concept to grasp. It has taken many years and many experimental trials to find out how to clone animals. Dr. Ian Wilmot was first to conquer this elite task of cloning.

Dr. Ian Wilmot of Roslin Institute revealed to the world that he had successfully cloned the first adult sheep in 1997 (Research Defence Society). With this invention, the world made a collective gasp at the realization that cloning was no longer a dream, but a reach closer to a scientific break through. Dolly, the cloned sheep, was not the first animal to be "cloned" because many of mice, frogs, and cattle had been "cloned" before, but the reason Dolly was so special was she was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult c

With procedures, costs, ethical issues, and new research cloning is definitely a new scientific revelation. Everyone in the world has their different points of views on cloning, but with more and more research and enthusiasm towards cloning it will only become a greater issue. Cloning is only in its beginning stages and before anyone knows it cloning will be issued for any animal on the planet.

Not only can scientists clone animals to become an identical copy, but also some have been trying to clone animals to make the clone better in terms of genetic makeup or disease resistance. Scientists have been trying to take cloning one step further and take the DNA from animals and reorganize its sequence (MaClean, 107). By reorganizing its sequence they are trying to change the color of the animal or change the animal from polled (no horns) to horned (MaClean, 108). Scientists are still working on this process, but they are really excited about the outcome thus far in the procedure.

Not only can farm animals be cloned, but also house pets. Texas A&M announced on December 22, 2001 that they cloned the first cat (Ritter, A3). The cat named CC, short for Copycat, is a healthy short hair domestic cat that is normal and frisky. The only problem about cloning pets is that the cloned pet won't necessarily be a carbon copy in appearance to the original (Ritter, A3). It will also not come equipped with a ready-made bond to the owner or carry any other memories of the cat that it was cloned from. Cloning of pets is just in the beginning stages, but over time scientists feel this will be a huge breakthrough for many families.

Another ethical issue is the cloning of pets. Shirley Ragsdale said, "Forget Cloning: Shelters already have lots of purr-fect cats (Forget Cloning, 13A)." She along with many other people in the world feel that cloning pets will not help the fact that many animals are being put to sleep in shelters because nobody wants them as pets (Forget Cloning, 13A). With the option of cloning pets, people will keep cloning and the shelters will receive more and more animals.

If a farmer wants a farm animal cloned then they can keep the cell tissue in a "cell bank." One company called Cyagra allows storage of tissues for a small price of what the cloned animal would cost. Farmers are allowed to keep a cell tissue in a frozen area for $90 per cell tissue per year (Gillespie). After it is kept and the farmer wants to go ahead with the cloning process then there is a lot of fees for cloning. If Cyagra is supposed to develop a cell line (procedure before fus

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