What are the applications of cloning animals?
What are the applications of cloning animals? 1. The maintenance of animal genetic biodiversity. Paradoxically, cloning, known as the carbon copy reproduction technique, could turn out to assist biodiversity, because we will be able to reproduce rare animals, belonging to races or species on the brink of extinction. 2. Evolution of agronomy. Cloning could be used for genetic selection complementing artificial insemination (provided, of course, that the descendants of the clones have sexual reproductive behavior and efficiency that are similar to that of their species). Jean-Paul Renard emphasizes the interest of molecular biology in offsetting the deficiencies caused by the development of breeding and in identifying genetically interesting animals. In the past, he explains, these animals were known by breeders, who knew how to identify and select them for reproduction. Today, there are fewer breeders, in the UK for example, where selection was born in the middle of the 19th century. Th
