What will you do if you had a dinosaur DNA?
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I'd sell it to the highest bidder who intends on trying to clone it. Plus I want a percent of the profits from any money made off of book deals, movies, etc..\n.
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The theory that Satan put the dinosaur bones on this earth to confuse people and make them doubt god and what the bible says. \n\nConsidering there are modern day descendants of dinosaurs still roaming the earth.
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I like to see a dinosaur\n\nCoach
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According to the BLM's website it can vary state to state.  I now that any vertebrate fossil is illegal to collect.  Best thing to do is ask your local office.
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No i would respond by questioning the molecular construction of a trilobite and whether it could be dated to a pre jurassic age or whether it was just another anomaly from the mariners trench in the pacific
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Dino, he is a dinosaur and Astro is just a dog from the future. I could walk my dog anytime but chances are pretty slim that I would ever walk a Dinosaur.
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dna from fossils will typically be destroyed
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The egg. Dinosaurs were laying eggs way before there were chickens!
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First, kudos to you for being so open minded.\n\nI haven't read the Nat'l Geo article yet ... but I have it, and am anxious to read it.  Say what you will, the photos are breathtaking (but that's nothing new with Nat'l Geo).  And I have read several Dawkins books, but not that one. \n\nBut without hearing your specific counter-arguments, I don't know how to address them, or why you find the evidence to be "not of such high quality."  The evidence is actually *exceedingly* strong ... and most scientists accept it.\n\nI highly recommend two books in the "Beginners" series.  Specifically, "DNA for Beginners" and "Darwin for Beginners".   Don't be fooled by the cartoon format of these books ... they are excellent introductions to the science.\n\nBut if I can try and guess your point ... if the evidence of genetic linkage with *prehistoric* species is not of "high quality", it's because the DNA molecule (the source of all genetic material for all life on this planet) breaks down rather quickly.  Even a few hundred years is enough to start breaking down the DNA in the remains of animals.  And fossils rarely contain any genetic material.  However, this is not always true.  Occasionally, bone tissue can remain in fossils, and some DNA can be extracted (as we have done with Neanderthal, for example).  But overall, recovering genetic material from prehistoric animals is difficult.\n\nHowever, the genetic links can be reconstructed quite well by examining genetic similarities between living descendants of that prehistoric species.  If living species A, B, and C all have specific genes in common (code for the same protein, same location in the chromosomes, almost identical amino-acid structure), then this tells us that their common ancestor X had these genes.  If there is a fouth species D that has some, but not all the genes shared by A, B, and C ... then this indicates that there is a common ancestor Y that is further back that is the ancestor of all four living species.\n\nFuthermore, there is the concept of the 'molecular clock'.  This is the known rate at which transcription errors (basically 'typos') occur in DNA as it gets passed from generation to generation.  So the number of minor 'typos' found in the DNA of A, B, and C gives us a strong indication of how long ago their common ancestor X lived.  (For more info. see source.)\n\nI hope that helps.  It's hard to be more specific without knowing what your specific objections are.
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Try reading the article on bone from Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone\n\nAnother interesting article is the Scientific American, July 2005, article on "How Dinosaurs Grew So Large--and So Small"\nhttp://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=6745BB5C-2B35-221B-6C30EAA4A975E3E3\n(See your school library for a copy)
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How long DNA, protein or any other biological substance can survive in the environment is entirely dependent on the environmental conditions present. \n\nIn areas of high humidity or high temperature, biological substances degrade rapidly. In cool dry conditions where the sample has a chance to dehydrate quickly before bacteria and fungi have a chance to destroy it, DNA and proteins can survive for many years.\n\nBlood at a crime scene can be identified years after the event. DNA has been extracted from the teeth of people who died thousands of years ago. DNA degrades over time, however and only very short pieces of it would be left after such a long time. People have tried to extract DNA from prehistoric blood sucking insects preserved in amber with the hope of getting dinosaur DNA from the blood left in their bellies, however the DNA is almost completely degraded. The movie Jurassic Park will have to remain a work of fiction.
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(1) The age of a recent fossil (max 50 000 years, i think) can be detected by measuring the amount of or Carbon 14 present. Living organisms take in Carbon 14 from the atmosphere constantly through respiration. Carbon 14 decays slowly into Nitrogen 13 by beta decay, so that living organisms have an equillibrium or intake and decay of Carbon 14. Once we die, we stop taking in Carbon 14, but it keeps decaying slowly. By measuring the concentration of carbon 14 in a fossil we can estimate how long ago it died. After a long period of time, the amount of carbon 14 left is so small, that it cannot be detected. It that case, the fossils are often dated by other methods, such as the age of the rock it was found in or something like that. \n.\n(2) It is very hard to estimate the age at which a person died when all we have left from them is their fossil. It CAN still be done, though, for Human fossils and recent hominid fossils. This is usually done rather arbitrarily, based on the size of the bones and the ratios between sizes and locations of certain bones. The thickness and strenght of bones might also be used to determine this.\nThinking specilativelly, if we can recover the DNA os a fossil, we could possibly calculate the age at which it died by measuring the length of epithelial chromosomes, compared with that of nerve chromosomes or so, since the ends of the chromosomes in skin cells cannot be replicated properly, causing a shortening of the DNA in every cell generation. (Though how would you recover epithelial and nerve cell DNA from a fossil??? Ha ha ha ha ha!)
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The egg. Dinosaurs were laying eggs waaaay before the chicken came around!
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make a model of DNA with wires and thermocole balls
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I love gardening. What wonderful question. For a science garden, display a star shaped flower for astronomy, some rock moss for geology, sea shells for oceanography, and a t-rex for paleontology. Oh, and don't forget to throw in a naked Ken and Barbie for anthropology. Have fun. Use your imagination. Hmmmm, how could you display archeology? maybe a mummified Skipper doll.
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Do not go there.\nLeave the microorganisms in peace.\n\nIf you have not got the entire DNA structure mapped and well understood, you are asking for nothing but trouble.  You might end up with a pathogen which targets human nerve cells or muscle nerve discharges.  Write a sci-fi book about your idea and leave the experiments until you finish a college degree and have a much better idea of just how complicated the Big Picture really is.
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try going to dinosaurs.com there are several sponsors that might interest you.