If you could bring back any extinct animal, what would it be, and why?
I would love to bring back a dinosaur. It doesn't seem like a safe thing to do, but I would love to see what they were really like. Creatures that were so big amaze me, but we would have to build a giant zoo with huge walls.It would be cool to see how they react with each other.
I wonder what these animals would think of our planet if they came back, would we be able to tame them? I wonder what new species will start to appear now.
The Mastodon/Mammoth. Their existence could provide an excellent food source for starving populations. Also we may be able to revitalize their existing relatives, the elephants, by harvesting their genome.
Mastodon, it's been gone about 5,000 or more years now. But if it were still around we would have North American elephants here in the US.
To understand how cloning might be used to restore dead animals and even bring back extinct species it is important to understand how cloning works, and what it can and cannot do. Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an oragnism or part of an organism. There are many different types of cloning and cloning techniques.
Of interest here is the method called reproductive cloning which uses "somatic cell nuclear transfer" (SCNT) to create animals that are genetically identical. In this process, genetic material (namely the nucleus of a cell) from the animal that is being copied is transferred into an egg of a female mammal. The egg is not fertilized in the normal way, in that no spermatazoa enter the egg.
However, the egg begins to divide as if it had been fertilized, and reproduces the DNA of the copied animal. The egg is then implanted into the womb of a surrogate mother and grows into a fetus and eventually an identical baby copy of the original animal. This method of cloning has some similarities to in vitro fertilization used to make "test tube" babies in that the fertilization of the egg takes place in a lab.
The egg is implanted with the genetic material using state of the art tools. However, it is much more complex and difficult that the normal in vitro fertilization because instead of using sperm to fertilize an egg, the genetic material of the donor animal must be extracted intact from its cells and then implanted into the egg.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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