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Re: Cloning - Good or bad?
Posted By: Sakura, on host 172.155.151.180
Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 09:01:11
In Reply To: Re: Cloning - Good or bad? posted by Sosiqui on Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 16:23:08:

> There's one area not often thought about where I think cloning could to tremendous good... conservation. Using this judiciously, we could be able to repopulate dangerously low-population species of animals and plants. Even better, we could perhaps reverse some of the more recent extinctions caused by humankind. I've heard of experiments of this kind looking into the re-creation of the quagga. I think that's quite an interesting concept, and although I don't know how it would work in reality, I believe it's worth looking into.
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> Sosi"seer of obscure sides of the issue"qui

Well, in the case of recreating extinct species, there would be evolutionary stagnation because the specimens would be identical or nearly so... I suppose that's better than nothing, though. ::shrug::

Saku[one of the few things I remember from last year's biology class]ra