2006-09-17 23:56:20 · 8 answers · asked by gayu 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Watch Jurassic Park..
2006-09-18 06:09:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume your talking about Jurassic Park's explanation because as of current technology it is not possible. Is suggest reading the books as they give a pretty solid explanation, but here's the basic idea. DNA is like a set of instructions on how proteins and nutrients need to arrange themselves to make cells and then how cells need to make an organism. So once they have the DNA from the mosquito they take the egg(egg as is the cell that gets fertilized to start pregnancy) of a large reptile, like a kamotto dragon, Strip the kamotto dragon's DNA out of the egg and replace it with the Dinosaur DNA. You now have a fertilized Dino egg place back into the Komoto Dragon, it becomes pregnant lays the developed egg which hatches and Bam a Semi plausible Si-Fi Dino.
Check this out for reasons why it probably wouldn't work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_issues_in_Jurassic_Park#Biotechnological_background
2006-09-18 07:16:27 · answer #2 · answered by Aaron S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only living decentants of dinosaurs are birds so there's, at least with our present knowledge of genetics, no way to reconstruct the DNA of a dinosaur.
What you could do is to start with birds and selectively breed towards a dinosaur-like creature. It would take thousands of generations to reach a creature that walked on four legs and even then you have no garantee that it would resemble a dinosaur.
Maybe it would be better to breed from lizards. Genetically they are a far cry of dinosaurs but at least there are some lizards that look a little dinosaurish.
2006-09-18 07:07:07 · answer #3 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the first answer A LOT heehee
but anyway....
To clone and recreate dinosaurs, you need to get damaged dinosaur DNA, that can be found in mosquitoes trapped in amber that sucked a dinosaurs blood long long loooong time ago. Then you need to have them spliced with reptilian, avian, or amphibian DNA to fill in the missing gaps.... But oh well... that happens only in Hollywood! hence; Jurassic Park
2006-09-18 07:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by SAM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
small dna has all the info
2006-09-18 11:06:51 · answer #5 · answered by Dr.Gagan Saini 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask Michael Crichton!!! No yet my dear only possible in Theory.
2006-09-18 07:04:13 · answer #6 · answered by kiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
add _i_os_ur to it. lol! DiNosAur
2006-09-18 07:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by Raj S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can't be done as of now.
2006-09-20 17:32:54 · answer #8 · answered by Abhijat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋