tions in the animal house are the best possible. Minimizingthe pain and distress the animal goes through, yields better results. When the experiment is over,the most humane method of euthanasia should be chosen also.The next stepping stone is reduction. This is any strategy that will result in a decreasedamount of animals being used to obtain the same amount of data. Making the appropriate designand analysis of the experiment can increase the percision of the data and also enable feweranimals to be used. Doing a small pilot study could also indicate whether or not it is appropriateto go into a major study. This would eliminate huge studies that yield bad or useless results.The last stepping stone of the three Rs is replacement. A replacement is considered aexperiment that does not entail the use of a whole, living animal. Replacement methods can beused to totally eliminate animals in a study, or they will complement animal experiments. Whichwould reduce the overall number of animals in the project. Common replacements are computerbased systems, lower organisms, and cell culture systems.The three Rs are great stepping stones to totally eradicate animals in experimentations.Although chimpanzees DNA is that best match to human DNA. So it could be wise to study andexperiment on these primates. Our closest evolutionary cousins are chimpanzees. Humans andchimps share 98% of our DNA (Cramer 1). The difference between the DNA of a human and the Secor 7DNA of a chimp can fluctuate from 99.6% to 98%. Another interesting fact about the similaritiesin man and chimp is the difference between human and chimp is only 160 enzymes (Cramer 1).With this closeness in DNA we are able to see what will potentially happen to humans when put on a drug or whatever the intervention happens to be. The results may not be 100% accurate dueto the 0.4% to 2% difference in DNA, but there is not a whole lot of room for error in thisdepartment. So experimenting on Chimps...
