Cross Breeds

Can we make clones from DNA of extinct animals?

we have already made test-tube babies, cloned lambs......so why nt the extinct animals?

Public Comments

1. yes --- but still have not heard the strike rate --- i.e --- tasmanian tiger --- good luck
2. They probably don't want the or don't have the DNA.
3. yes --- but still have not heard the strike rate --- i.e --- tasmanian tiger --- good luck
4. yes --- but still have not heard the strike rate --- i.e --- tasmanian tiger --- good luck
5. yes --- but still have not heard the strike rate --- i.e --- tasmanian tiger --- good luck
6. Yes it had been done on some kind of goat which is extinct. Unfortunately the cloned animal died very young ):
7. While it's not technically impossible, there are some major hurdles to be overcome: Firstly, you need a complete genome. In non-extinct animals, this is easy - just take a living cell, yank out the nucleus, and there you go. In extinct animals, this is much, much harder. Even in cases where you have tissue samples available, so you can extract DNA, assembling that into a usable set of chromosomes, all correctly packaged with the right proteins, is still beyond our ability. In practice, people who are attempting to do this today take a related animal and try to add in some of the extinct animals genes, bit by bit (example: mammoth DNA being put into elephants). Even if this technique works, the result won't be exactly like the original extinct animal - just close. Secondly, you need to have a suitable egg cell and host mother. Again, the only practical way of doing this is to use species that are closely related to the extinct species, which sort of works, but again those host species will have some amount of influence on the final product.