In these days when science is advancing rapidly, animal cloning has become a part of our lives that most of us don’t even realize. So much so that anyone can now have their pet cloned by paying a certain fee. So what is said about it?
Although we don’t hear it widely every day, scientists are now a cloning the living they can successfully. So that cloning It has even turned into a service for pet owners.. How Does? Let’s take a look at this ‘service’ that many of us will be surprised at.
You must remember Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal. Dolly the sheep, born in 1996 and later cloned, was a touchstone in the scientific world. Animal cloning has become the preferred method of pet owners today for various reasons, such as fear of losing their existing animals. A pet owner who has experienced this process He also told the BBC what he had experienced and his reasoning.
The two clone dogs that were born were almost genetically identical to the dog he carried:
Former retired US police officer John Mendola is devoted to his beloved dog. when diagnosed with terminal cancer He said he decided to clone him. To have his dog cloned, Mendola turned to the first company to clone the cat and dog, and is now the only company that offers this service. This Texas-based company viagen was.
Viagen was named after Mendola’s dog ‘Princess’ before Princess passed away in 2017. tissue sample took. A year later, using this genetic material from a surrogate mother dog. gave birth to two clones of offspring. The cubs were genetically identical to the princess. Mendola named these two dogs ‘Princess Ariel’ and ‘Princess Jasmine’. Including the spots and hair of both dogs, Mendola explains. everything was pretty much the same as the Princess. He even stated that even his demeanor was the same as the Princess.
Discussions about cloning:
Animal organizations have significant concerns about the cloning industry. Among the points of criticism that have raised these concerns are that cloned animals are more prone to illness put forward and low cloning success there is also. So much so that a report published in 2018 found that the average in cloning success rate is only 20% had revealed.
While the cloning debate continues today, the demand for pet cloning is increasing day by day. So much so that Viagen says they clone more and more pets every year and since 2015 they have done hundreds of cloning explained. Company to clone a dog 50 thousand dollars While charging a fee, this fee in cats 30 thousand dollars descending. If the horse is to clone 85 thousand dollars is requested.
So what do you think about cloning pets?
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