Drawbacks of Cloning
lReduce life
expectancy of cloned organism due to shorter telomeres.
lReduction of genetic
diversity, thus a single disease could wipe out humanity.
lAlso, if everyone
starts to be cloned and the technology is lost, inbreeding would occur bringing genetic problems to our
species.
lInbreeding could also occur in animals that we clone or
the endangered species we could try
to save with it.
lTechniques are not advanced enough yet. It took 277
tries to make Dolly and this produced
many lambs with abnormalities that were put down. This is one reason that human cloning is on hold.