Cloning

[s p a c e m a n]

It'll need some holes anyway, it wont last long without atleast a couple.

[Simpo Two]

nammynake said:

TheTurbonator said:

Not very ethical though is it.

Plus, even if there was a preserved mammoth, I still don't think that would be enough to clone another one. DNA is very complicated and contains a huge amount of information. The last time I knew, the only animal we had "mapped" the DNA of fully was a type of worm.

I thought they had mapped the genome sequence of many animals, humans included?

Yes, the human genome project was completed 10+ years ago. Hence I presume he meant 'from frozen animals'.

Using an elephant to bear a mammoth seems like a fine solution; if you have ethical problems over it you're not going to progress much.

NB: You don't need a gene pool to make a clone, a clone is a copy of one. Gene pools are for sexual reproduction overall.

[IainT]

TheTurbonator said:

Captain Muppet said:

TheTurbonator said:

Dolly the sheep, was inserted into a surrogate mother sheep, and then developed and grew just like any other animal. Unless you have a female mammoth hidden somewhere, then cloning a mammoth isn't possible.

Elephant? Deliver the mammoth a bit early if needed.

Boom, species reborn.

Not very ethical though is it.

Plus, even if there was a preserved mammoth, I still don't think that would be enough to clone another one. DNA is very complicated and contains a huge amount of information. The last time I knew, the only animal we had "mapped" the DNA of fully was a type of worm.

You don't need to "map" the DNA to clone, just extract a complete strand and implant in a suitable cell. Mapping is the understanding of what each bit does.