• Question: do you think scientist can make dinosaur come back to life

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      Asked by MC_pineapple to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 12 Mar 2015.
      • Photo: Anaïs Pujol

        Anaïs Pujol answered on 12 Mar 2015:

        No I don’t think. Even if they find DNA it will be damaged, then even if they succeed to got it intact, you need to create chromosomes and then need dinosaur eggs to put the chromosomes inside. So a lot of ifs before to be able to do anything.

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        Shreesha Bhat answered on 12 Mar 2015:

        Hi MC_pineapple,

        They could have tried if they had the complete DNA sequence of a dinosaur, but even if they had, scientists are yet to fully master the cloning of animals/multicellular organisms as their efforts to clone animals have not been that successful. Although i dont like saying it, scientists cant make dinosaurs come back to life atleast in the next hundred years or so!

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        Peter Maskell answered on 13 Mar 2015:

        No. we have yet to find any dinosaur DNA.

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