Questão 17 - UNEC Medicina 2022

TEXTO:

Cloned dog

     A wealthy couple in Florida have paid $150,000
for what a South Korean laboratory claims is the
world’s first commercially cloned dog. Lancelot Encore
is reportedly an exact duplicate of a family pet that
[5] died last year.
    Several years ago Edgar and Nina Otto froze the
DNA of their dog, Lancelot. When he died last year,
the couple were devastated and they decided to get
a clone produced by a South Korean laboratory.
[10]    The biotech firm Best Friends Again claim that
Lancelot Encore, as they’ve named the new puppy,
is the world’s first commercially cloned dog. The
laboratory in South Korea, BioArts, includes a scientist
that lost his research professorship at Seoul University
[15] in 2004, after fraudulently claiming he’d cloned human
embryos and stem cells.
    The Ottos hope their new pet will behave just
like the original, but added: “We do realize that, if he’s
different, we’re not going to love him any less”. The
[20] new owners say they’re happy with their new dog and
don’t plan to clone any others.
    It’s thought that between three and four million
unwanted dogs are killed at shelters across the United
States every year.

GALLACHER, Andy. Cloned dog. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 5 nov. 2021.

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