Bemoaning cloning. (Advice & dissent: letters from our readers).Your article "Reinventing the Zoo" (cover story, March/April 2002) examines endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. cloning. The likelihood that it is a viable solution to species loss, however, seems close to zero. Benjamin Beck of the National Zoo explained on PBS's Ask the Scientist that cloning is unlikely to be a useful conservation tool because it does not preserve genetic diversity. We must question the idea of trying to put the financially driven band-aid of cloning on the gaping gap·ing adj. Deep and wide open: a gaping wound; a gaping hole. gap  ing·ly adv.Adj. wound of global habitat loss, which is the single most important cause of the largest mass extinction mass extinction, the extinction of a large percentage of the earth's species, opening ecological niches for other species to fill. There have been at least ten such events. since the dinosaurs <onlyinclude> This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. . Larry Bohlen, Program Director Friends of the Earth Washington, DC |
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