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The best use for cloning in this context would not be to bring back a title which was already extinct but to bolster the genetic health of a rare species which still exists. Cheetahs, for example, have problems because they went through a genetic bottleneck as few thousand years ago, when their numbers fell almost to the point of extinction, so now the surviving population is very inbred and has almost no genetic variability with which to adapt to changed circumstances. If we could find a mummified cheetah carcass from before the bottleneck and extract its DNA, then we could grow cloned kittens in modern cheetahs, who are the same species so there would be no compatibility or cultural issues, and those cubs would introduce better genetic variability into the species.

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