Clone

The new technology of cloning should be utilized because it could bring back extinct organisms, help infertile couples to have children, and potentially save many lives. Cloning could bring back extinct animals (Kaku 227). Over millions of years, thousands of different species have gone extinct. Most were due to natural selection, while several others were due to human intervention. Approximately two thirds of all the native bird species (Kendall n/a) and one fifth of the native plants (Kendall n/a) originally found on the Hawaiian Islands have gone extinct recently. Predators, competitors, or diseases introduced by humans from continental areas are responsible for many of the extinctions. Also, many remaining species on other oceanic islands are threatened or endangered. A benefit of cloning would be the cloning of "endangered species that have difficulty reproducing in captivity" (Kaku 227). Many of the animal species, and numerous plant species could be brought back to life with cloning. Even though there is currently no technique for bringing the plants back, with the rapid advance of technology, a solution in the near future is possible. .
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             Ultimately, cloning could have significant human applications. Cloning could help an infertile couple because one of them was infertile. In the case of an infertile father, scientists take an egg from the mother, remove its nucleus, then take a cell from the father, remove its nucleus, and place the nucleus inside the empty egg (Kolate 242). That cell then acts as a reproductive cell. Next, they then place the egg in the mothers' womb to impregnate. "Mark Sayer, an infertility expert at Columbia Presbyterian Medial Center in New York, would like to take each cell from an early human embryo and clone it, making identical twin embryos in the woman's uterus immediately, and freeze any extras for future attempts at pregnancy" (Kolate 242). The attempt would prove the process of reprogramming a cell's DNA begins with clones (Kolate 237).