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To: fishtank

So....can it be cloned or not?


4 posted on 04/02/2013 10:24:32 AM PDT by Fawn (In a World of Information, Ignorance is a Choice.)
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To: Fawn

No, it can’t be cloned.

What they’re finding isn’t DNA, but unfossilized protein or protein fragments. For example, when they say they found red blood cells, that’s not usually what they observed. They found traces of heme, the protein that’s part of hemoglobin, still in the fossil.

DNA is remarkably fragile. Unless it’s specially preserved for future testing, there’s usually too much degradation and contamination for it to be useful for very long.


12 posted on 04/02/2013 12:11:53 PM PDT by Velvet_Jones
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