Re: Jurassic Park

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 1995, Joseph Scelso wrote:

>       This may be a stupid question, but how did they get the extinct 
> plants in Jurassic Park.  It doesn't explain it in the movie or in the 
> book, so I was just wondering how they did it.  If anyone has any ideas, 
> I'd really appreciate it.
>           Gina Scelso

I assume that genetically engineering plants are quite a lot easier than 
genetically engineering a dinosaur.

How did they do it?....Hmm...take a modern representative and modify it's 
DNA to produce a hybrid which closely matches the appearance of the 
extant plant.  

---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)