Fig. 10. 8 Cloning of dolly

Advantages and Disadvantages Of Cloning Animals Advantages • Offers benefits for clinical trials and medical research. It can help in the production of proteins and drugs in the field of medicine. • Aids stem cell research. • Animal cloning could help to save endangered species.

Disadvantages • Animal and human activists see it as a threat to biodiversity saying that this alters evolution which will have an impact on populations and the ecosystem. • The process is tedious and very expensive. • It can cause animals to suffer. • Reports show that animal surrogates were manifesting adverse outcomes and cloned animals were affected with disease and have high mortality rate.

• It might compromise human health through consumption of cloned animal meat. • Cloned animals age faster than normal animals and are less healthy than the parent organism as discovered in Dolly. • Cloning can lead to occurrence of genetic disorders in animals. • More than % of cloning attempts fail to produce a viable offspring.