To: hkp123; GonzoII; oldenuff2no; The Duke; Scotsman will be Free
Cloning, to me, seems as though it would increase the headaches of inbreeding. The problem as it pertains to livestock breeding is that inbreeding can cause small inherited defects to become monumental weaknesses. It would be even worse if multiples of one individual was cloned and being bred.
Sure, a breeder wants to maintain those desirable aspects of a particular animal, but inbreeding to improve a herd can lead instead to hidden genetic defects or aspects becoming predominant, like malformed hips, faulty heart-valves, etc.
Imagine now how cloning would just multiply that inbreeding problem.
Or could I be wrong? I’m a believer in genetic diversity within a breed as that tends to create healthier individual animals which inbreeding generally does not.
7 posted on
11/14/2009 4:56:03 PM PST by
SatinDoll
(NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
To: SatinDoll
This is different science than combining dna in a normal breeding situation. There is only one set of dna, no chance of a improper âcombiningâ. The problem with cloning is getting cell division to happen in the proper sequence. The secondary problem is that in some early experiments well into adulthood the animals suddenly aged very quickly. It is almost like the cells wore out faster. It appears that they have got that one figured out now. All this stuff is pure science. No magic and no spirit induced transformations. Within a few years we should be able to grow organs for replacement from your own cells.
8 posted on
11/14/2009 6:51:17 PM PST by
oldenuff2no
(I'm a VET and damn proud of it!!! I did not fight for a socialist America!!!!!!!)
To: SatinDoll
I’m no genetic scientist, but as I understand it, cloning is making a duplicate of what you have. Inbreeding is when you are using two closely related creatures to create a third, and that’s when you have inherited defects or genetic faults come more to the fore because the offspring is getting the bad genes from both parents.
11 posted on
11/15/2009 2:44:51 AM PST by
Scotsman will be Free
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