RE: dinosaur cloning

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berislav Krzic [SMTP:veselinka.stanisavac@siol.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 11:52 AM
> To:   Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com
> Cc:   dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject:      Re: dinosaur cloning
> 
> Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com
> wrote:
> 
> <Hungarian scientists did this in a minor way decades ago, without
> computers.  They used
> selective breeding to retrograde to a primitive bovine type from
> modern cattle.  They simply
> bred for the more basal characteristics in each generation.  It took
> 10 years or so to come
> up with a basal bovine.  Maybe not THE basal bovine, but much more
> primitive.>
> 
> 
> Yes. It wasn't THE basal bovine.They just got the breed that looks like
> _Bos
> primigenius_  ( Tur ), they couldn't resurrect the species exterminated in
> Medieval times.
> 
> Berislav Krzic
> illustrissimus@usa.net
> ILLUSTRISSIMUS PRODUCTION
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> 
        [Stewart, Dwight]
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        Well, maybe no - maybe yes.  It depends on what we mean by reurrect.
I agree that without basal
        DNA, they couldn't be sure, but the animal they ended up with looked
exactly like the
        earlier bovine form.  BTW - a herd has been maintained in Germany.

        Dwight