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Amber; The Ultimate Preservative
Topic Started: Jun 7 2005, 01:50 PM (136 Views)
digifan2004
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Millions of years ago primitve trees oozes a sticky liquid substance later known as amber. Over time these sticky tree sap had preserved insects long since exstinct. In Jurassic Park we saw scientists extracting suppostively preserved DNA from the dinosaurs. Yet in reality we know DNA is one of the first bio substance to break down after an animal died. With this in mind, if DNA could be preserve using amber, could resurrecting the dinosaurs or other extinct species be possible?

What do you think? :shrug: :headscratch: :idea:

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Dr. Noah
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I think I lack the expertice to give you an adequate answer, but Michael Crichton seems to think so.

On a related issue, they have dug up preserved bodies of extinct whooly mammoths. The tissue could be taken and even cloned!
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Admiralbill_gomec
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I do not believe you can clone dead tissue or dead DNA.
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Dr. Noah
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I can't remember how they said they could do it, but a scientist was talking about impregnating an elephant with partial mammoth DNA and her carrying it to term. I'll try to get an article.

Here we go: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/lando.../clonezone.html
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