Extinct mammoth DNA decoded

BBC News ^ | Sunday, 18 December 2005 | Helen Briggs

[planetesimal]

Scientists have pieced together part of the genetic recipe of the extinct woolly mammoth.

The 5,000 DNA letters spell out the genetic code of its mitochondria, the structures in the cell that generate energy.

The research, published in the online edition of Nature, gives an insight into the elephant family tree.

It shows that the mammoth was most closely related to the Asian rather than the African elephant.

The three groups split from a common ancestor about six million years ago, with Asian elephants and mammoths diverging about half a million years later.

"We have finally resolved the phylogeny of the mammoth which has been controversial for the last 10 years," lead author Michael Hofreiter of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told the BBC News website.

[LIConFem]

"Let's clone them ala "The Lost World".

If we hurry, we could be marketing Mammoth's Wool sweaters by next fall.

;o)

[x5452]

It's hardly constructive, evolution has spoken; the mammoth is no more because it isn't suited for survival. Bringing it back plays dangerous games with the eco-system.

[Paul C. Jesup]

It's hardly constructive, evolution has spoken; the mammoth is no more because it isn't suited for survival. Bringing it back plays dangerous games with the eco-system.

Your above statement is an oxymoron. You wish to support evolution, yet you support enviromental laws which go against evolution and protect animals and plants that would naturally go extinct.

If you want to be against science, fine. State it up front and be honest about it, but don't hide behind false reasons and lies.

You just want to decrease the quality of life for humanity.

[djf]

Lol! I had a girlfriend once with frozen ovaries. She still sends a chill down my spine.

In more ways than one!

[taxesareforever]

We should spend it on shopping malls and nuclear fusion instead.

The more nukes the better. And shopping malls, yeah.

[SunkenCiv]

mtDNA? boring. :')

Decoding of Mammoth Genome Might Lead to Resurrection
LiveScience | 19 December 2005 | Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 12/19/2005 12:02:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1543467/posts

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[najida]

I want one too... :)

Wonder if it can fit under a Christmas tree?

[Right Wing Professor]

Only 5000 base-pairs to make a mitochondria? Wow.

I think they have it wrong. This reference says 16853 base pairs.

[ed ict]

Why not bring back all of past history for our amusement? Life and the time goes on....and so does death (or reality, if you prefer)

[ed ict]

Sorry, my reply was to post 30 BnBlFlag
Let's clone them ala "The Lost World".

That would be the coollest thing ever.
30 posted on 12/19/2005 7:47:59 AM CST by RogueIsland

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