• Question: Since you've been learning about animals, what is your take on cloning animals/ bringing back the extinct.

    Asked by MissBeliever to Alex on 6 Mar 2017.
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      Alex Evans answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      It’s definitely not an easy question to answer!

      The cloning technique has very interesting applications and the ability to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species would be very exciting, especially if they can teach us more about how life existed a long time ago.

      We may feel that it is our responsibility to bring back species that have been driven extinct by the actions of humans, but it might also take a lot of time and money to bring them back and they might never be able to be released into the wild.

      Overall, I think it is more important that we spend money on protecting the species we currently have and making sure that we stop them going extinct in the first place.

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