2006-12-27 10:34:35 · 9 answers · asked by evililobster 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Cloning a dinosaur is not possible today because dinosaur DNA has been through a lot of rough conditions and most of them are not healthy any more. If you were to find a healthy dinosaur DNA strand, you wouldd also have to find a mother dinosaur to implant the duplicated egg in. But then, there are no live female dinosaurs that are able to give birth to this duplicated egg. A crocodile or ostrich is as close as we can get to one, but they aren’t good enough. This is kind of like the "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" question.
2006-12-27 13:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by Jackie T. 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You would need the complete Gnome and be able to put all the pieces in order. But even with this it would most likely not be possible without the host (ie: the other dinosaur), no way at this time to create it out of nothing. As it stands now when they clone a sheep its a copy of a now living sheep, plus they used the ovum (egg) of another sheep to in plant the DNA. Where are we going to get this (a living dinosaur ovum). I would go with not possible today and most likely never. ~A~
2006-12-27 18:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by porsche 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some scientists once claimed to have obtained some DNA-fragments from insects who carried dinosaur-dna (because they supposedly stung them) and had been emprisoned in amber (yes, just like in jurassic park). but they didn't consider, that amber is porous and so oxygen penetrated inside the amber and destroyed the dna. what the scientist supposedly found, was their own dna. they had contaminated the samples.
today, neanderthals are among the oldest beings from who scientists claim to have extractd dna from. And the specimens are something about 30'000 (+- a few millenia) y old. And it was a hard time to find a specimen with enough collagen (in which the dna is "trapped") to amplify some dna from. So you can imagine how hard it would be to get some dna from a 64 million y old fossil. Today it is not conceivable to get our hands on dinosaur-dna. that is why it is not possible to clone dinosaurs.
2006-12-27 19:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Zaius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs are dead and long-decayed. Because of this, the fossils we find do not contain a set of DNA complete enough to copy --the information is fragmented or so denatured that one cannot copy it. One can liken it to photocopying a design from sheet of paper. The photocopier can replicate only what is there; so, if the complete design from the paper is not present, it will show a fractured and incomplete picture; the picture may be so unclear, it is unintelligable. The same thing goes for DNA in one's body. In order to copy it, one must have a set that is readable, else one will get an incomplete being [a dinosaur, in this case] as a result, or nothing at all.
2006-12-27 18:48:03 · answer #4 · answered by webstoragea1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you cant , cos first u need to have a live cell and all dinosaurs are dead. so no DNA will be able to replicate in the egg cell of a female.
2006-12-27 18:40:09 · answer #5 · answered by silver_star 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says it's not possible? There's a lot more going on concerning cloning then is ever made public.
2006-12-27 18:36:45 · answer #6 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) You need a cell with a full DNA compliment
2) That's it really.
2006-12-27 18:36:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs are extinct, aren't they?
2006-12-27 18:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by Oh Dee! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No viable DNA
2006-12-27 20:37:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋