Like in Jurassic Park? Use remaining dna from fossils or mosquito's that ingested their blood. Maybe could bring back the Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, even Brontosaurus.
2006-07-01 11:40:31 · 14 answers · asked by FrozenCloud 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
In the polar regions animals which were dead eons ago but lay buried in mountains of snow when excated theri flesh was found as fresh as if they had died recently. In fact, the dogs pulling the sledges started eating the animals immediately . Had the DNA technology been available then it would definitely have been possible to culture these animals.It is now within the realm of possibility of bringing back to life some extinct species. However, how far they will be viable in the changed scenario is doubtful.
2006-07-01 11:55:13 · answer #1 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though they're not close enough to cloning things without a host body to implant the fertilized egg into, there is a possiblity that this could happen. But nowhere in the near future, as the DNA must come from a living egg or sperm cell to clone it.
Though after Jurasic Park the movie and all the dinosaurs eating people and stuff, I doubt they'll bring back dinosaurs. Plus, it would be extremely hard for them to extract enough DNA from anything millions of years dead to even get a reading, much less recreate the species.
2006-07-01 11:45:59 · answer #2 · answered by Noel H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It might be possible to bring back dodos. There are some skins, I believe, in the British Museum, and some skeletons. They became extinct so recently that their DNA might be extracted with relative ease.
I think, OTOH, it would be harder to bring back things like woolly mammoths(which I, personally, wouldn't mind having around). But the recent expeditions which have found frozen mammoths in Siberia, have found their DNA too degraded to work with. This, of course, hasn't stopped people from trying. I understand that there are people in Japan trying to recreate woolly mammoths. All I can say is, I wish 'em luck.
As for anything much older than this, well, perhaps in some future era, this will be possible, but a lot depends on how far back you can go to extract aDNA(ancient DNA). I don't think, for example, you could recreate dinosaurs very well. And heck, who would want a bunch of T.rexes around? They were awfully big. . . .
2006-07-01 17:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by mousteriana 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right now scientists are trying to bring back the Tasmanian Tiger. They are trying to clone it from an old specimen...but so far they have not been successful! Not sure if it can be done once the animal is extinct. We may possibly be able to keep an animal from becoming extinct by cloning.
2006-07-01 16:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You just never know. Anything is possible. If we could all see into the future I'll bet we would all be so amazed. Just look back in history for even the past 50 years and see the amazing things that have happened.
2006-07-01 12:58:48 · answer #5 · answered by papricka w 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
theoretically plants can be regenerated by reprogramming the growth sack of a seed with data taken from an grown shoot of greenery an extinct plant can be trained to grow with many of it's original features. as like the white pepper structured seed genetic mutant as well as asparagus which was originnally a man made compound of two veggies and synthisized to grow as a orig. plant form
2006-07-01 12:16:44 · answer #6 · answered by Book of Changes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't even take DNA from a recently dead animal and bring it back to life, even when we have living females of the species to implant it in.
2006-07-01 11:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"could" relies upon on what's to be finished with them. some species could under no circumstances were presented to the U. S. (or a minimum of no longer offered as pets) because such issues ensue because the boa constrictor project in Florida. the biggest one there became merely killed a week or so in the past--it became almost 18 feet lengthy. now and again in Africa they change into so large they do swallow adult men.
2016-10-14 01:08:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jackasses can be now, we know the chemical make up of many genes and dna strings if nothing else we can artificially create them
i think ebay sells DNA starter kits
2006-07-01 14:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mr Spock 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes they are finding pieces or cells of dinasours today in africa and they are scrapping rocks to get dna to grow in test tubes
2006-07-01 11:47:08 · answer #10 · answered by kayla g 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋