Could it be that instead of ancient DNA........

trex kills spino · Post by **trex kills spino** » 12 Mar 2006, 19:23

i want to help with gnetic stuff*cuts off half his body replaces it with tenticals of giant squid* i am squid man.

SSJDinoTycoon42 · Post by **SSJDinoTycoon42** » 12 Mar 2006, 19:28

This is for scientific discussion, not for trying to be funny or whatever it is you're doing. If you don't have something to add to the discussion, don't post in here.

trex kills spino · Post by **trex kills spino** » 12 Mar 2006, 19:32

cant breath i gusse i should of have study more but really never slice human dna with animal dna its wrong.it was a deminstration

SSJDinoTycoon42 · Post by **SSJDinoTycoon42** » 12 Mar 2006, 19:45

Well, be a little more serious the next time you try to present a demonstration or example.

lilgamefreek · Post by **lilgamefreek** » 12 Mar 2006, 20:56

OMG! BUMP!

But I'll play along. Honestly, if we can get to the point of not just genetic manipulation but creation, that would be a miracle and a nightmare.

Hadrosaur river · Post by **Hadrosaur river** » 28 May 2006, 08:11

That's an interesting idea. I was wondering if it was possible to recreate dinosaurs through artificial selection. In 1883, a subspecies of the zebra, known as the quagga, became extinct. Then a South African called Reinhold Rau tried to recreate the quagga through specially selecting and breeding zebras that most closely resembled the quagga.

Of course, with dinosaurs, this is a lot more difficult - whereas the zebra and quagga are very similar animals, nothing on earth today has that level of similarity to dinosaurs (apart from birds, which actually are dinosaurs)

In the JP novel, they mistake a Procompsognathus for something called a Basilisk Lizard, which apparently can stand upright from brief periods of time. If we found some other animal bearing some traits like that of dinosaurs to breed a Basilisk Lizard with, maybe in a few hundred years we could have evolved something resembling a Procompsognathus! (That's what I'd hope, anyway)

T-rex23 · Post by **T-rex23** » 28 May 2006, 14:12

You make a good point, but I'm in today's society, don't we want something in few years, rather then hundreds of years?

I mean After all, this is a capitalist society, so you think scients would choose something less time consuming wouldn't they?

Hadrosaur river · Post by **Hadrosaur river** » 28 May 2006, 18:47

Mmm, I see your point...selectively breeding lizards that vaguely resesmble dinosaurs would take quite a while to get an actual dinosaur...

I like the idea of scanning a dinosaur skeleton and trying to figure out what its genetic code would be, though. They should give it a try!

T-rex23 · Post by **T-rex23** » 28 May 2006, 19:43

Yes, yes they should, but now rises another problem....ethics...and societies readyness (sp) for such creatures. Now think about this, I myself set out to create a REAL Jurassic Park, if you want I'll get you my files and etc, but, where will you get funding to do it?

Send me a personal message if you want to discuss this further...

KL89 · Post by **KL89** » 23 Jun 2006, 08:16

Then again we have the aspect of - IF we have the knowledge to somehow breed up new dinosaurs - how dangerous that would be.