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The Cloning of Non-Human Animals: Playing God for all the Wrong Reasons  

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Name: Gunes Gereyhan Student Number: 993857108 Teacher Assistant's Name: Jenny McDermid Lab Code: BM131 The Cloning of Non-Human Animals: Playing God for all the Wrong Reasons The existence of humanity ultimately depends on our use of plants and animals to nourish us with their resources. The quality and quantity of the food that these living entities provide us with determine how healthy we will be and it has been the work of farmers and breeders, for many thousands of years, to engineer plants, but mostly animals, that provide us with the best of the best. For some time, the only way to do this was through selective breeding, a process by which animal and plant breeders pick, choose and mate organisms with the most desirable characteristics, such as resistance to disease, high growth rates and other characteristics that would produce an almost perfect specimen with never-ending resources. Although selective breeding seemed like the ultimate...

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