people are mixing some frozen wooly mammoth dna with an elephant to ressurect them, what do you think?
2006-08-19 10:37:50 · 14 answers · asked by jack andrews 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
wow cool but will they last long in global warming temperatures i think they should breed fish and see so many colours in the water
2006-08-19 10:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Chesh » 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the DNA is a synthesis of various samples. No single sample has been found to the best of my knowledge that is viable. So this will be a patchwork quilt best guess wooly.
We used to call those SWAGs
Scientific Wild *** Guesses.
I suppose you could charge admission to see it and claim it is a wooly mammoth. Who would know the difference except for the team and a few geneticists.
2006-08-19 17:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Kirk M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF they manage to find viable sperm, and IF they are chromosomally compatible with elephants and IF the pregnancy goes to term, you will have a beast that is 50% mammoth. I think its an interesting bit of science. These were huge mammals and it would be great if they could restore something from the past. And one effect of global warming would be to put Europe in an Ice Age again, so at least there will be large mobile fur coats!
2006-08-19 18:23:01 · answer #3 · answered by Allasse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be interesting to see what happens. I don't see how we are playing god by trying to resurrect mammoths. Natural events caused the extinction of the mammoth and creatures from that epoch, because those animals just couldn't adapt to the rapid changes. If we want to help conserve currently endangered animals from extinction then this experiment will help illuminate queries about this type of genetic manipulation. Furthermore are humans playing god already by giving medicine to sick people?
2006-08-19 19:02:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's as bad as those people who put grey squirrels on our UK shores, they shouldn't be here and the native species are suffering for it. Where are they planning on keeping these mammoths? They died out for a reason, and I don't think it was a mass-extinction event in their case either.
2006-08-19 17:44:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As i understand it, the full mammoth DNA has not been found, so it's science fiction.
Would be interesting to see real mommoths again though
Interesting article here
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i2/mammoth.asp
2006-08-20 05:35:05 · answer #6 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Dolly's anything to go by they'll have problems keeping them alive. But if extinction isn't forever there may be hope for a lot of species.
2006-08-19 17:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by Red P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is a rotten idea.
since they will have no natural enemies, they will quickly take over their habitats and run wild and amuck.
just look at similar transplants of all kinds of currently extant animals and plants all over the world to environments to which they were not native.
disasters always ensued.
2006-08-23 13:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by craig g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We killed the things off. They'll only ever be safari park curiosities. It's not playing god. It's just seeing what we can do.
2006-08-19 17:45:56 · answer #9 · answered by Neil - the hypocrite 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ifthey do succeed, the animal would be sterile.
Cross breeds in nature have this interesting little condiotion to stop species intermingling and creating new breeds.
It would only last its own lifetime.
2006-08-21 11:53:25 · answer #10 · answered by HarryBore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋