Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20140925072347/@comment-3213993-20140927044610

BastionMonk wrote:

Collector1 wrote: Is it possible to use genes from crocodilians? They may not be as close to dinosaurs like birds, but they're still relatives none the less. Scientists can compare bird and Crocodile (and maybe Turle) genes and make an estimation of what the dinosaur genes could have looked like. These dino-like genes could be inserted into a cell culture to see if they are functional. The functional genes could be put into a Chickenosaurs genome. And there we will have a dinosaur facsimile. Technically, if you compared the genes of crocodiles and birds, you wouldn't have a dinosaur gene, but a gene from a primitive archosaur. If you compared only bird genes, you would get ancestral bird genes.