Animals Scientists Are Trying To Bring Back

Genetic engineering depends on existing DNA samples of the extinct species.

Animals scientists are trying to bring back. In preparation for de-extinction The. In their effort to change back the hand of time scientists are trying to back-breed the animal by mating selected breeds of older cattle that they are sure to have much of the DNA of the aurochs. A friend of mine recently tried to tell me that many years ago some scientist was able to bring dead animals and people back to life.

While auroch DNA will still be part of the program its actually being analyzed to determine exactly how it is structured. Not content to speculate on possibilities a group of geneticists met in New Zealand in 1999 to figure out whether it would be feasible to clone a huia and bring the species back for good. Scientists are on the brink of finding ways to bring species back from the dead that is from their long and in some cases brief history of extinction.

Instead of hacking the DNA of some old bones and bringing the auroch back in a lab scientists are resorting to some more familiar tactics to bring the extinct animal back. Ironically many of Earths long-lost species including some on this list were driven to extinction by humans. To discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction.

The result of their experiments would produce only partial de-extinction however. With backbreeding scientists use a living species that is genetically similar to the extinct species and selectively breed it for the traits of the now-extinct species. Scientists could bring them back to life by targeting and replacing specific genomic sequences in a closely-related living species.

Many scientists from across the globe have been trying to perfect the morally ambiguous act of cloning andor genetic engineering for certain extinct animals. Scientists want to bring them back through selective breeding of cattle species that carry some aurochs DNA. In a first step toward resurrecting the mammoth researchers from Russia and South Korea are working to bring back another extinct animal the Lena.

Bringing extinct animals back to life is known as de-extinction. Advances in science specifically biotechnology could enable scientists to bring some of these animals back from extinction and there are a few already on the list. They are also trying to conserve DNA of certain animals so that they can be resurrected.