Q.Mention the advantages and disadvantages of cloning.

Step 1. List the advantages: animal cloning offers real benefits for clinical trials and medical research, and can help in the production of therapeutic proteins and drugs; it aids stem cell research; and it could help save endangered species from extinction by preserving their genetic material. Step 2. List the disadvantages related to the process itself: cloning is tedious and very expensive to carry out; it can cause animals to suffer during the procedure; reports show surrogate mothers experiencing adverse outcomes, and cloned animals themselves show high mortality and increased disease; and more than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce a viable offspring at all, reflecting how technically difficult the procedure remains. Step 3. List the disadvantages related to the cloned animal's own health and to society: cloned animals tend to age faster and be less healthy than normally bred animals of the same species (as observed in Dolly herself); cloning can trigger the occurrence of genetic disorders; it might compromise human health if meat from cloned animals is consumed, a question that remains unresolved; and animal-rights and bioethics advocates view cloning as a broader threat to biodiversity, arguing it interferes with natural evolutionary processes and could affect whole populations and ecosystems. Step 4. Weigh the two sides: the chapter presents cloning as a tec …

List the chapter's advantages and disadvantages of animal cloning as two separate groups, then note the ove …

• Listing only the disadvantages (which the source lists more of) and omitting the genuine medical/conservation advantages. …