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Can scientists take DNA from a dead or frozen dragon and grow another dragon? |
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This would require the existance of dragons. If you meant to say 'dinosaur' then the answer is maybe. With current technology cloning is not always sucsessful, but it does frequently work. The largest prolem facing someone trying to clone a prehistoric creature is that soft tissue is required for cloning, preferably red blood cells, and soft tissue almost always is not preserved. However, freezing does preserve soft tissue remarkably well, an example of this being the well-preserved mammoths recently discovered in a glacier. Cloning could theoreticaly be a possibility in this case, but no frozen dinosaurs have been found (that I know of). This may largely be a result of the fact that the earth's climate during the Mezoic era was so much warmer than it is today.
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To clone anything (dragons included) you not only need the DNA from a donor (possibly dead) but you also need a viable EGG cell. Viable eggs come from living donors. In the movie Jurassic Park they used the Eggs of Frogs (????) not an entirely believable solution for me at least. Now it might be easy to get the DNA from a dead dragon but GOOD LUCK getting a viable EGG from a living female one.
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