I hope they are. Hopefully they are taking hundreds of samples from hundreds of different animals so they can someday reintroduce them without having to worry about "imbreeding" that would occur if they only had samples to clone a few copies.
I would think scientists would be accumulating an entire library of as many samples of DNA as possible for use with cloning technology is perfected more.
2006-08-31 15:22:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
to some dude- Yes we do....
to Joe- that's what a clone is....
The point is to make a "twin" or clone using hundreds of different sets of DNA so it wouldn't be imbreeding as it would if we only made one male and one female clone.
2006-08-31 15:38:13 · update #1
I researched cloning for pets for a college paper, and read a lot about cloning endangered species. There are scientist working on this kind of thing.
I do not fulling form and opinion, except that we must focus on preserving habitat or all the cloned animals will be in zoos.
2006-08-31 15:29:38 · answer #1 · answered by Tina K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists are not planning to clone extinct species because it is not possible.
By the way, what is "imbreeding?" It's an interesting looking word, but I never saw it before. Do you mean "inbreeding?"
2006-08-31 15:46:48 · answer #2 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that I heard that the agronomy dept. at the Univ. of Iowa had an effort to collect and store plant seeds from any genetically unique plant they could find. It may have only been crop plants, I'm not sure.
Seeds are great because you don't need to be a rocket scientist to make a new plant from them, and they can be stored a very long time without too much difficulty.
2006-08-31 15:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by Tom H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize how much room that would take? All those freezers take a lot of space. Also, I'd be worried about grant money. Most researchers depend on grant money from the government to pay for their stuff. Would they be able to even get any money for this? They'd have to convince the grant people that this project is more important than various other research projects out there.
2006-09-02 09:13:01 · answer #4 · answered by nokhada5 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cloning in that sense is impossible. Scientist's claim to have made clones but all they did was create a twin.
2006-08-31 15:34:05 · answer #5 · answered by Joe-slim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm... maybe scientists should work on ways to limit human population growth so we quit destroying the planet we live on and stop consuming land needed for endangered species...
it will happen within our life time that wild polar bears will not exist because global warming will destry their habitat.. how sad that many species will be lost because one species (humans) dont have the brains to have smaller families...
2006-08-31 15:31:36 · answer #6 · answered by CF_ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all, and we don't have the technology to take DNA and turn it into life.
2006-08-31 15:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No They are not.
;-D By the way, is your name Noah?
2006-08-31 15:29:20 · answer #8 · answered by China Jon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but there doing it with sheep
2006-08-31 15:27:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im sure they are trying.
2006-08-31 15:37:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋