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Roman “Jurassic Park”, which many of us are larger known for the same film, for twenty-five years. And if in the time of creation of this artwork is a revival long ago extinct animals was considered pure fantasy, today scientists already far from a similar assessment.
At the beginning of this century, geneticists managed to revive the extinct Iberian Capricorn. There was only one clone, although they did in this experiment, more than half the sheep of which they became pregnant only seven, and only one uterus was able to nourish. Moreover, the clone itself lived only ten minutes, however, and this proves that the rebirth extinct animals are in principle possible.
Perhaps not all! The thing is, DNA starts to break down immediately after the death of the animal, a thousand years from it remains no more than a quarter of the genetic material. Even if DNA is placed in ideal conditions of complete conservation, then its final decay will happen anyway in seven million years. And the “youngest” dinosaurs roamed the earth about sixty five million years ago. It turns out that the Jurassic Park – pure water fiction of a talented science fiction writer.
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But to revive the mammoths and other animals of the ice age, living on our planet several thousand years ago, says the geneticist from Harvard George Church, quite possibly. It is a revival woolly elephants of the past are now engaged in scientist. He considers, that the revival of extinct animal species will soon become the most common thing and what else during his lifetime, scientists will recreate Neanderthal man.
True, all experiments related to human cloning, banned in many countries around the world and especially in civilized. For example, experiments by Chinese scientists on human genome changes made in April this year, caused widespread condemnation by the international community scientists.
However, experiments on the revival of extinct animals going on. Australian scientists, for example, are currently working time over the Lazarus project, whose goal is to recreate two species of frogs, extinct in the second half of the last century, other researchers seek to revive the Tasmanian wolf, wandering dove, and so on. So far, the task of geneticists extends to species of animals that have become extinct relatively recently. The main thing is to achieve real success in this matter, and there, perhaps, before dinosaurs it comes, if not to those shown in the film “Jurassic Park”, and at least to more real prototypes described in the novel of the same name.
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