List three potential issues regarding cloning

→ susceptibility to disease – crops and animals with no genetic variation are more susceptible to environmental changes and disease, leaving the human population vulnerable to wide scale food loss if all our food is clones → high failure rate – somatic cell nuclear transfer has a very low success rate (0.1-3%) → adverse health effects – many cloned animals have displayed impaired immune systems and organ malformations → premature aging – due to the shortening of the telomere cloned animals tend to have lower life expectancies → many people are worried about the fact that cloned food products should be labelled clearly despite the FDA announcing that meat from cloned animals is identical to normal meat