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First extinct animal cloned:

Thanks, Kyle. I love news like this. It would be so neat to live in a sphere where only the news one wanted ever penetrated into one's sphere.
 
I just told my youngest son, and we agree the thylacine would be the coolest extinct mammal to clone.
 
I agree with you Janine! I would absolutely love to see a Thylacine!

Thanks so much for the link Kyle! How sad that the clone died within minutes, BUT at least technology is one step closer! :D
 
The very last one before it becacme instict got hit by a branch, now that would suck big time.

"Oh look, no silly hoomans can kill me now, i'm so special! la la la la, (bumps into a tree)" Branch falls... "Oh crap..."

Thus ended the life of once an endangered species to an extincted species.
 
The one thing that I believe will prove insurmountable in cloning extinct species is the lack of genetic diversity... I think they will have a difficult time finding complete DNA segments for even a couple of extinct individuals, let alone a whole herd. And with the inevitable bottleneck is going to come susceptibility to disease and a higher than normal proportion of disorders.
 
Hypancistrus said:
The one thing that I believe will prove insurmountable in cloning extinct species is the lack of genetic diversity... I think they will have a difficult time finding complete DNA segments for even a couple of extinct individuals, let alone a whole herd. And with the inevitable bottleneck is going to come susceptibility to disease and a higher than normal proportion of disorders.
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I agree, but then look at how much more DNA they can recover now...let's see what the addition of the ability to recover mitochondrial DNA as well will do?
 
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