Re: Jurassic Park Cloning, a pondering

[Randy King <randyk@ims.com>]

There is something I've been wondering about along these lines.

Given a complete understanding of DNA, would it be possible to
figure out dinosaur DNA from what we currently know about 
a dinosaur.  Granted we could determine a superset of what the
creature would have had, but would that provide any useful
information?  I suspect we couldn't really answer that without
the premise - a complete understanding of DNA, but I'm 
curious about people's speculation on the subject.

The DNA could be narrowed down not only by the known bone
shapes and skin textures, could cladistic information also
provide a reduction of data?

At 08:36 AM 10/23/01, Alfred Keene wrote:
>Greetings All,
> I have a report to do on the possibilities or
>improbabilities of cloning as pertains to the Jurassic
>Park movies. Any web-site suggestions? I'm taking is
>an introductory geology course so it shouldn't be to
>technical of a web-site.
> On a personal note I had asked advice on a
>paleontology degree a while back. Looks like next Fall
>I will be on my way to South Dakota School of Mines
>and Technology. I'll be going for my B.S. in Geology
>with a track pertaining to Paleontology. The school
>has a masters program in Paleontology so I will stick
>around for graduate studies there. Thanks to all for
>the advice.
> About the cladistics web-site, as a beginning student
>of Paleontology I found it very helpful. It may not be
>an in depth look or a graduate level treatment of the
>subject but for those of us starting out it helped.
> Thank you all again,
> Al Keene
>
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