Re: Clone

[Finback <goodmr@ses.curtin.edu.au>]

At 07:05 pm 8/10/00 -0500, Steve  Brusatte wrote:

>Many of the news reports were discussing how "extinct animals cannot be
brought back to life this way because live cells are needed."
>
>Hypothetically, though, if DNA was found frozen in good condition from
something that recently went extinct, say an Irish Elk, then could this
method work?  If the DNA was in good condition, then HYPOTHETICALLY this
would be possible.  The DNA from the dead gaur was kept fresh by being
frozen, if I recall correctly.  
>
>To my knowledge, a complete strand of frozen DNA from any kind of
prehistoric species of organism has not been found.  Perhaps I am wrong.
But if some is found, then perhaps this method would work.

        This is something I've pondered before - given the fairly abundant 
frozen
mammoths, is it not likely we could get a complete sequence from one? And
then, wouldn't it be likely that there's at least one of each sex? Just mix
and match, add one Mama _Elephas_, and lo! A reheated mammoth
clone/offpsring..


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