Re: Triceratops was a giant horned turkey

["Scott Hartman" <scott_hartman@hotmail.com>]

> > > What was the extraction process?  How did they protect
against the contingency of DNA contamination (modern
DNA or otherwise)?<<<

    Well, unless they are letting poultry run amuck in the lab, then we can 
probably rule out contamination...if the results matched an animal known in 
the area where the fossil was unearthed, or if the results matched one of 
the researchers, then we would have reason  to be suspicious.  Unless some 
microscopic organisms inexplicably overlap the results (which I severely 
doubt), then contamination probably isn't an issue.

Repeatability, on the other hand...



Scott
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