. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement. Observing and studying animals helps to understand human nature. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion?
I completely agree with the statement 'observing and studying animals helps to understand human nature'. Firstly, because it is scientifically proven that some animals have very similar genetic structure to humans. Secondly, because some animals have very similar organs to humans. Therefore, I think the researches on animals can give a very clear idea about human bodies and further researches have a big enough potential to give solutions for the modern incurable diseases.
It may be hard to believe, but it is proven that humans and chimpanzees have genes that are 99% similar and humans and frogs have genes that are 96% similar. These numbers prove that researches on some of these animals can be almost as effective and as realistic as researches done on human bodies. By observing and studying these genetically related animals, we will certainly be able to develop more and more cures for human diseases.
It is rather astonishing to see how similar human's main organs are to those of pigs. Once, in a biology class, we compared a human heart with a pig's heart, and we all agreed that there was not much of a difference between the human hearts and the pig hearts. Scientists have only confirmed very recently, that it is completely safe in most cases to replace a person's heart with a pig's heart. The research was delayed due to a recent protest against animal testing. During that time, hundreds of people on the donation waiting list could have been saved.
Human bodies are very similar to those of animals, so the researches involving animal testing are ever so useful. A lot of people have been saved by these researches and most of us are benefited from animal testing in our daily life, using animal tested cosmetics and medicines. Because the scientists themselves are humans and they are the ones who are the most aware that the animals are very similar to humans they try their hardest to treat them in the most humane way possible. Just because of this mere sympathy coming from exaggerated scenarios about animal we should not limit other sick people's chances.