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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?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.
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.
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.
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.
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