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Cloning v De-extinction.

 ]What Is Cloning?

Cloning is when you take a human or animal’s DNA to make a replica/twin/copy. There are five steps in the cloning process.

1. Firstly you have to get DNA from an animal - this could be from a blood sample, saliva, or urine

2. then the next step is to study the DNA (finding the genome sequence), 

3. Next is to fill in the gaps using DNA from a similar animal (E.g. for a moa, you would use emu or ostrich DNA), 

4. 4th is to create an embryo and find a  Surrogate Mother for the clone. 

5. The last step is to wait for the clone to be born.

Examples of cloning

If you didn't know, you can make a clone/twin without using anything, it‘s called Natural Cloning, Natural Cloning is when you get your parents cell and it gets split in half and makes a lot of copies that make you look like your identical twin, Fun fact - as many times as the cell splits that's how many twins that will be created, but getting a identical twin is very rare to get.

The very first cloned mammal was Dolly the sheep who was cloned in 1996 July 5 and died in 2003 it only lived for 6 years and was cloned in Scotland. Cloning is kind of the same thing as de-extinction but cloning is when you take DNA from a living organism and de-extinction is when you get DNA from extinct animal fossils.

What Is De-Extincion

In the school journal, page 12,  Return Of The Moa? by Quinn Berentson, it was talking about extinct animals that can be de-extinct, for example, Moa, Wooly Mammoth, Huia, Tasmanian Tiger and many others, but what are the reasons why? The reason why is because it could fix the mistake that they have made in the past, bring happiness to the world, also when you bring them back you get to have a closer look at the moa. But there are some animals that can’t be de-extinct because the fossils are too old. For example, Dinosaurs. their bones don't have enough DNA. Now i am going to talk about what are the bad things about de-extinction? de-extinction is a total waste of money and we should spend the money on endangered species that actually need it for their habitats, and once scientists de-extinct an animal they wouldn't know the reaction the animal/creature will have.

What is the purpose of cloning?

The purpose of cloning is to clone animals for experiments to prevent disease from spreading or viruses such as Covid-19 and many other viruses that may come in the future. 

Who created cloning?

The very first study of cloning took place in 1885 by a German scientist-Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, he began reaching and then in 1902 he was able to create 2 twin salamanders by dividing the embryo into half.

Is cloning ethical?

Before I get on with the question. What is ethical? Ethical is when you answer a question and there aren't any right or wrong. This means we should think about if we really should do cloning or not - doesn’t that mean we are playing God? Should we have that power? Should we just let nature take its course? This is the ethical dilemma. 

What is DNA

Athelitics 2020

  

In 13th of November 2020 we had a very fun event, we call this Athletics day. it is the day where 4 teams compete for the best winning house, the teams were, Tobruk, Tripoli, Benghazi, Alamein. The point of the game is to get the most points for your team by playing field events such as shot put, discus, high jump, long jump and  standing jump. Aach team has a gazebo to stay on so people don't get sun burned.   

For the first game I did, was Shot Put the rules of this game is to places the shot by your shoulders and your not allowed to throw only push, whoever gets the farthest push wins the game and gets to represent their school. The next game I played was Standing Jump, the rules of standing jump is to jump where you were standing and no double movements. For the third game I played was discus, a tip for discus is to throw it at the right time and ahold it from the front. the  fourth game I played was long jump, long jump is a simple game all you need to do is run and try jump your farthest but you have to jump before the line but if you don't you get disqualified. The last game I played was high jump, for high jump you just have to jump over the pole then land on the soft mat, but the only technique you could do was scissors. after all of that then we had morning tea.

After morning tea we moved on too...RACING, first it was juniors first it goes to 5 year old boys/girls then to 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, there are a 50 meter race then 75 meter race then 100 meter race and a 400 meter race but that is only for the older people. But then in the end Alamein won then Benghazi then Tobruk then Tripoli

Pike River 29

 

 

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