Why do people clone plants and animals?

Answer 1

Human cloning is a topic of worldwide controversy and ethical and religious debate. It is already banned in many places. Some debaters argue in favor of human cloning for the purposes of initiating a pregnancy (reproductive cloning) and for medical research or treatment (therapeutic cloning). Debating these uses of cloning is complicated by the difficulty of reaching agreement about the definition of a human being (e.g., whether an embryo can yet be considered a human person). Further details on the pros and cons of human cloning are covered in other, similar questions on this topic in WikiAnswers.

Answer 2

People clone because if someone dies then they can change another person to be exactly the same as the person that died. Some people may want identical twins, then if they have twins but they are not identical then they can clone them to make them look and talk exactly the same. Also, If you need to do spare-part surgery or skin graft ect, than you can use the clone's part.

Just remember that if you clone all the time, everyone won't want to have babies anymore so the world would look exactly the same. In cloning there can be positive points, however there can be negative points too. and if you clonned yourself you would me stuck with baby as your self

Answer 3

Cloning plants is a convenient way of ensuring all your plants are exactly the same (genetically). That way, you can perform scientific experiments and be sure your results are accurate and can be reproduced.

Answer 4

Because animals(I'm not talking about hydras and all of those kind of animals) only reproduce sexually. But now scientist have found a way to ARTIFICIALLY asexually reproduce animals. The problem is is that if they clone an animal that is 20 years old, the clone of that animal tissue's and all of it's organs will work as if it was 20 years old, decreasing the life of that clone. But cloning in my opinion is a bit scary. But it' real. You also have to understand that there are clones all around us. Plants are clones because they asexually reproduce organically, identical twins are clones because the zygote split into two and created two exactly identical DNA. But artificially asexually reproducing a creature who was designed to sexually reproduce is a bit ironic. But scientist want to beat the odds, and so they did.
Most scientists are going to have their own unique reason for wanting to clone animals. There are also some that do not think it is a good idea. One of the more common reasons is because they believe it would open the door to being able to clone humans as well.

Answer 5

There are many reason's why people clone.

-when one loses a child, some want to clone the child that is dead because they think that no one will have to suffer about it anymore. However that is not true. However the clone looks like the original.. on the inside it is not. It will not have the same personality Gene's don't make a personality experiences do.

-infertile couples clone

-people clone for medical purposes such as to clone a human organ for another

-some people clone for scientific research

Just to be clear I'm against cloning!

ah no clonungs just fine

Answer 6

Well, cloning yourself basically means that you get an extended lifespan. Also, cloning yourself basically preserves you to do things that you didn't have time to you. In other words, a second chance. With cloning, we would not have to lose the great people in the world, Mozart, Beethoven, Martin Luther King, etc.

Answer 7

cloning is done because of special features that are needed. for example when a cow is cloned that is because of the milk it produces and the meat it has.

Answer 8

To see if they can make the species alive so they don 't die out.

Answer 9

no human has been cloned to date.