Stupid Question
Since we can now clones animals and such, can we bring back animals that have become extinct by cloning them? Or can we only clone from living cells?
posted by Bravie at 4:56 PM
Thursday, April 05, 2007
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28 Comments:
The possibility exists, but don't hold your breath for dinosaurs. There are people despirately searching the Siberian permafrost for Woolly Mammoth remains with extractable DNA which they plan to insert into an elephant ovum and then implant into a living elephant.
Wouldn't that be cool?
you are way too deep for me.
There is a George the Sheep joke in here somewhere.
There is a George the Sheep joke in here somewhere.*
*That was me cloning my post.
Two ethical schools of thought:
JUST SAY NO TO CLONES!!!!!!!!!!
Who wants the hair competition?
JUST SAY YES TO CLONES!!!!!!!!!!!
If you clone yourself, you may no longer be the biggest goof on the room.
Hi. I just read that on Fridays, Clones eat for free at any Bickfords.
Anyway with all teasing aside, Carey, your question is NOT stupid at all.
In fact, it leads to bigger more profound questions like, "if I drive with my clone, will I be able to use the carpool lane on the highway?"
GAH! All Stah is waking up. I wish I could clone myself and make my clone make fun of you all day.
Ta ta for now, my sweet LS!!!!!!
Monsty is too funny. LOL
The world always needs more clowns.
You know they did clone dinosaurs? They took the DNA from a fossilized dinosaur in amber and mixed it with frog DNA to fill in the rest. They now have full grown t-rex's in 3 places...San Francisco, Boston and Wisconsin.
You just called Me, Monsty and Kimmer, OLD!!! *kick*
Well Kimmer is officially old today. *grin*
This is very true. Kimmer's an old old fart today. 30 is soooooo old.
Heh. I find this funny. Yesterday, Monsty called me and told me that she had been craving adult interaction. We laughed over the fact that she needed adult interaction and yet she called ME. *snort* So I decided to post something all deep and mature and adult like. And what does she do? Comes in here and makes light of the post and acts like an infant. Hrmph. :)
Mr. Fro clones stuff. Not animals. At the moment, he's busy cloning HIV and Hepatitis viruses but I think cloning is cloning is cloning.
Anyway, it all depends on how intact the DNA sample from the extinct thing is to begin with. If it's in good shape, then yeah, the DNA can be cloned. The trick with making an actual animal out of it goes along with what swami said, it has to be implanted into a living animal that's close enough genetically not to reject the implanted clone.
I think. I can ask him.
Frodis <-- all serious since 9:30am.
Does Mr. Fro work with my brother? He does that sciency kind of stuff too. He is working towards cures for cancer and AIDS. I don't think he does cloning work though. I'm not all into science and stuff but I am interested in this cloning of extinct animals for some reason.
where did my other post go? I asked a question and now I forget what it was. *think think think*
clowns are scary. The world does not need more clowns. *squinty eyes* Do not clone clowns.
*checks email* There was no other post from you, Glowie. Last night must have been pool league. :P
Send in the clowns.......
There's got to be clowns.
*scans comments*
*makes list with Zombie's name on it*
*laughs at Monsty calling Bravie for adult interaction*
mmmm beer league. heh.
Was there any particular animal you have in mind? (see! I remembered the question I wanted to ask *made up a new one*)
no clowns. *stern*
Hey! For once I did not make an old joke! I was joking that the dinosaurs were coming to get them!
Dinosaurs are not old. Their mothers are.
Not one specific animal, no. But things like the wild cats in Africa and some of the other animals that are becoming extinct.
Although a Wooly Mammouth would be awesome.
lovely. I would also like to clone you and have you live here and your clone live there. I don't think anybody would notice.
Who wants to help me design my wolf tattoo? No rush. We got some time. (I have a feeling it's gonna be a pricey one)
I'm leaving. Going home to sleep.
Isn't one of the Scandinavian countries saving a databank of rare animal DNA, just in case? I think I remember reading that somewhere. Theoretically, if you have good DNA you can clone the creature.
I know they have a long term cold-storage bunker filled with all kinds of seeds from all over the world somewhere in Greenland (I think Greenland - could be Iceland.)
I want to clone a Fraggle.
Mr Bob clones stuff too. That scares me. He explained it to me using a ketchup bottle and a salt shaker, but then tried to tell me the pepper shaker was the clone, when obviously salt is different than pepper.
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