if it's just DNA and like material they should try and make a dodo bird..
i wanna see one
i don't care if it's a soul-less clone...and don't say anything like they went extinct for a reason...they went extinct because they were too awesome....but now in this desperate time we need more awesome....
They need DNA and something to breed the DNA into. Over a couple of generations, they could turn elephants into wooly mammoths (at least conceptually).
I think you take the centre out of a doner gamete (egg cell), insert the thing you want cloned's DNA, give it an electric shock to a make it start splitting or somthing, then you replace the cell(s) back into the doner and it should eventually become a clone... Well that's the jist of it, I can't remember it fully.
I'm not sure how it would work with birds though.
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The egg cell can come from any organising, it simply has to have it's genetic information sucked out.
23 chromosomes would be for human cloning, different species have different numbers.
But yeah, Robtard is correct, they more than likely could clone one but it's dangerous reentering a species to the world after an extended absence... Plus the ethics of playing God.
In regards to the Dodo, I'd personally say yes, they look tasty.
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well i think they should first see if they could and make a poll or something...it's not like dodos will gain a blood lust devouring the human race and controlling the planet....
Wouldn't it be 46 (2 pairs of 23) chromosomes for a human?
Not sure were the ethics of playing God comes in, God [if you belive in] created everything out of nothing, cloning is just using what was made/is available to us.
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what does it take to clone an animal?
Sep 2nd, 2007 02:54 AM
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