Can Cloning Animals Stop Extinction? | Save Our Species with Hank Green | BBC Earth Science

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Freezing an animals DNA, or 'cryopreservation', and then using that genetic material to essentially clone them, could help prevent vulnerable species from going extinct. But is it ethical? And could it go drastically wrong?

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