Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-1259419-20141212145505

In this thread I would like to discuss the progress of the science of cloning animals.

Imagine that we have all the DNA (in a nucleus) of a species and an ovum of that species. That is enough to clone the animal. However, cloned animals are generally not healthy.

Jurassic Park critic Dr. Becker wrote:

If the cloned dinosaurs of Jurassic Park weren't doomed by Chaos, prions, and bad parenting, they may have been doomed by their status as clones.

Just to give a few examples. was fat, had arthritis and had persistent respiratory infections. Cloned mice die young and often suffer of obesity. The first cloned extinct animal, a, died after ten minutes, due to physical defects in the lungs.

A company like Jurassic Park wants the cloning process to be fast and to create healthy animals. Otherwise, it can't make profits.

If you hear any news about breakthroughs in the cloning process, please post it below. 