Essay Archive - Cloning of Animals
Cloning of Animals
On Sunday, February 23, 1997, Scottish researchers broke one of nature's
greatest laws by cloning a lamb from a single cell of an adult ewe. This
breakthrough opens the door to the possibility for the cloning of other mammals
including humans.
This remarkable achievement is being looked at as a great advancement in
animal agriculture. But this achievement could lead to ethical questions of
standard.
Researchers lead by Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in Midlothian,
Scotland, showed that a fully differentiated cell from the mammary tissue of an
ewe could be manipulated in such a ....
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