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Essay / Cloning of farm animals - 553
The first mammal ever cloned was Dolly the sheep. Dolly gained international attention when she was successfully cloned using an adult cell. This cloning stunned many Americans, because they believed that cloning would conjure up bad images of mad scientists and their quest to cheat the limits of nature. An extremely high failure rate is the only common trait between cloning and the trials and tribulations of science. The desire behind animal cloning is high quality, healthy livestock, as well as preserving the genetics of many remarkable animals. Many proponents talk about the possible benefits of cloning on endangered species. Variability among living organisms, also known as biodiversity, is the safety of the wild population and livestock from the spread of disease. Cloning is an attempt to retain a set of genes desired by a buyer or purchaser of a clone, in order to make exact copies of the original animal that was used as the source. In January 2008, the FDA announced that all cloned animals were used as meat and even milk from a cloned animal....