Don't you think it would be cool to clone just one dinosaur just to see what it does?
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They can't, actually, not without mixing it with another creature. Because all cells come from cells. You'd have to put the dino DNA into a modern reptile cell. And it does matter, because it is cellular machinery that brings about gene expression - and that can have a huge effect on gene expression. (epigenetic inheritance) So you would not really know what trait was dinosaur, and what was artifact from expressing the genes in a modern reptile cell. \n\nStill and all, it would be fun, I agree!
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Why not? It wud be a dream come true if it so happens.I love myself so much that sooooooo many people love me and I being just one person ,cnt be with all,so if can be cloned shall get made many copies,one as a gud humanbeing to serve the world,second to be with my family and friends,third to live my fantacies,fourth to be a political figure to bring chage in the society,fifth to be a teacher to learn and teach the children,sixth to be an innocent child to just play n play,seventh to be....oh!I can go on and on.
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i wonder what a dinosaur dick looks like?
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dinosaur egg... is this a real question?
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What if they werent clones? What if it were all the work of the original?\n    I think I would find that far more amusing than random people cloning him
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It doesn't work like that.  \n\nWe're going to have to back up a long ways so you can understand first how evolution works, then I can answer your question.\n\nOkay.  The dinosaurs didn't "turn into" birds.  Most of them died out due to massive climate changes that took millions of years.  Some smaller dinosaur species gradually, again over millions of years, evolved into avians.  \n\nOther reptiles are still around today, but in forms that can effetively compete with mammals, all of which started from a small rodent-like creature that coexisted with the dinosaurs.  After the dinos died out, this mammal evolved into the millions of mammalian species we see today, again over a period of perhaps 200 million years.\n\nSome of these mammals evolved into primates; some of these primates evolved into hominids, and some hominids evolved into homo sapiens.  The rest died out because they could not effectively compete against existing species.  "Survival of the Fittest" and all that.  Many primate species survived to evolve into the thousands of different kinds of primates we see today.\n\nIt's actually quite elegant, when you see the pattern clearly.
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Never heard of a one-clawed dinosaur... one that has a single big claw is velociraptor. Don't know too much about the "hopping" part either, because dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years and we can never know for sure.
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cloning only can happen by taking dna from say one person the clone then has the same dna identical twins may have all of the same looks as a cloned person would but has differnt dna
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It depends.\n\nIf there is any tissue or marrow left you could do a crude DNA analysis and look for X and Y chromosomes.\n\nIf you had some history you could do a bone size/mass analysis. We know that males and females have different growth curves and rates. Looking at the size of the bones, you could determine a number of factors if you started with at lest one bookmark point like date of birth.\n\nIf you look at a cross section of the bone, depending on preservation, there are celluar differences that will help determine this, as well as racial background.\n\nOne nice thing about fiction, is that you can take liberties. Look at the TV Show CSI. Its a hit. But do you really think it is all done that way? DNA analysis takes days not minutes. Most times, the CSi techs are specialized and do only one aspect, like fingerprint analysis, they do not disassemble cars, run simulaions and do fingerprint analysis. So the point is that iwth a good story, the little details are overlooked and forgiven. You could very easily fugde the science and few would notice and of those that did, if the story was decent few would care. Another example, Jurassic Park. It was based on science in concept. Cloning is possible. Amber contains insects with blood from the time of dinosaura. Why not combine the two and clone T-Rex. Sounds good, but it does not mention all the details that make this impossible. But it was a great story, so the reader just doen't even think about it.\nGood luck with your novel.
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according to jurassic park ( the movie ), that theory is true.\nimagine a raptor sitting on a computer and answering yahoo question.....spooky, huh?
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Depends what ones views with bioethics are. \n\nIf you're an evolutionist, the question shouldn't be "do you want to be cloned" but rather "should you be cloned"? Cos if you keep producing the same genetic material which is what you're essentially doing with cloning, how would that increase your survival as an organism in the wild?
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memory has nothing to do with cloning. clones are legal humans, just with identical DNA as some one else. no your children wouldnt be the clones children, the clone is one persons DNA put into the womb of a woman, and then it gets birthed like any other baby. nothing is the same except the dna, and especially not the age, relatives, or memory.  of corse its murder to kill a clone, the clone would be a person just like you or I. clones don't even necessarily grow up to look the same as their parent clone.
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Well, technically identical twins are clones and many organisms with asexual reproduction clone themselves, so yes. I think the question should be if an artificial clone can reproduce; but most of them don't even live more than a few days.
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I think you were the one who told me about the facts of life...When my boys were not yours....LOL Summers ago...LOL\n\n DNA~ can and is transformed we just don't read about it in our daily news papers..Our government doesn't want to open another "Jurassic Park" lol ~~ are you laughing yet~ I  so am .....
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The problem I have is with the cloning process.  Most clones fail or are deformed.  We cannot subject the clones to half-as_ed technology which might cause them to suffer.\n\nBut other than that, I don't see a problem with clones.
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its actually pretty cool..Its about a team of  people who go back in time to rescue Dino's before they become instinct....of course it is not for real..but i like the show..  ( it is for  their Dino park)
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Segregate two populations of creatures into separate environments, and see if evolutionary differences between the two populations occur over many generations. That's the sort of experiment the bible thumpers would have to twist logic into a pretzel in order to refute.