Cloning Debate Project: Home

#DinosaursDiedTooYoung wants to use cloning to bring dinosaurs and other extinct species back.

• Why Clone? (ReadWorks)
• Animal Clones: Double Trouble? (Science News for Kids)
• Could Scientists Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life? (Natural History Museum UK)
• Welcome to Pleistocene Par: Russian scientists say they have a ‘high chance’ of cloning a woolly mammoth (PBS Newshour)
• Is it possible to clone a dinosaur? (LiveScience)
• Should scientists bring extinct species back from oblivion? (PBS News Hour)
• The Real Science of Bringing Back the Dinosaurs (Popular Mechanics) -- possible challenge read

#SuperMice wants to clone and breed super mice to study diseases and treatments. 

• Why Clone? (ReadWorks)

• Animal Clones: Double Trouble? (Science News for Kids)

Many, if not all of the "For All" articles work for this topic too, so head to that tab for more!

#EndWorldHunger wants to clone and make a population of farm animals that are resistant to disease. 

• Why Clone? (ReadWorks)
• Animal Clones: Double Trouble? (Science News for Kids)
• Animal Cloning and Food Safety (FDA)
• About Cloned Animals (Center for Food Safety)
• A Primer on Cloning and Its Use in Livestock Operations (US FDA)
• Welcome to the Clone Farm (Reuters)
• Cloning Method Can Make Wheat Fungus Resistant (Minnesota Daily)
• Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection (Phys.org)
• Avoiding coconut shortages by cloning (Newsweek)
• GMOs in animal agriculture (PubMed) -- challenging read
• A cheap way to clone plants (NY Times)
• Why birds are a challenge to clone?

#NineLives wants to clone her cells and create an organ bank so she can live forever. 

• Cloning Around (ReadWorks)
• Monkeys Cloned (Newsela) -- section on human cloning
• Time Machine? (Newsela) 
• How Human Cloning Will Work (How Stuff Works)
• How Organ Cloning Could Work (How Stuff Works)
• How Stem Cell Cloning Works (LiveScience)
• First Human Clone (Real Stories)
• Human Cloning (PBS Frontline)
• We Cloned You, Now Here's the Bill (Forbes)
• Researchers Clone Cells from Two Adult Men (Time)

#AnimalLover wants to clone his beloved dead cat.

• Why Clone? (ReadWorks)

• Animal Clones: Double Trouble? (Science News for Kids)

• Cloning Your Dog, For A Mere $100,000 (NPR)

• Cloning a Pet (WTOP)

• When is the best time to clone your dog? (Washington Post)

• The First Cloned Cat Looked Nothing Like It's Original (Ripley's)

• Pet Cloning: Where We Are Today (American Veterinarian)  -- possible challenge read

• The Real Reason You Shouldn't Clone Your Dog (Smithsonian Magazine) -- possible challenge read

#ShowMeDaMoney wants to clone and breed a champion race horse.

• Animal Clones: Double Trouble? (Science News for Kids)
• Cloning Horses (Kentucky Equine Resources)
• Secretariat II (Popular Science)
• Cloned Horse Wins Argentine Polo Open (Popular Science)
• World's First Horse Clone Is Born (New Scientist)
• Should Cloned Horses Be Allowed to Compete? (Robb Report)