Cloning the Wolly Mammoth

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I think science wise it could be a good idea and could possibly answer a lot of questions about evolution. We have modern mammoths living today and knowing the genetics of elephants maybe they could mix the genes of modern elephants and prehistoric mammoths to produce viable offspring to bring mammoths back from extinction.


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and I don't know much about cloning but don't they have to use dna from a close, non-extinct compatible species to add to the dna of the extinct species to make a clone?

like in this case, they'd use some elephant dna to make a clone. and if that's the case, that won't even make it a true wooly mammoth

but I don't know the details of the process, i'm just guessing you'd need an egg and dna. well, they have the dna, but no egg so they have to use an egg from a compatible living animal
 
doomiedee said:
I think science wise it could be a good idea and could possibly answer a lot of questions about evolution. We have modern mammoths living today and knowing the genetics of elephants maybe they could mix the genes of modern elephants and prehistoric mammoths to produce viable offspring to bring mammoths back from extinction.


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I don't know. i'd have to first know what the questions are. then i'd be able to determine if it's worth it
 
but either way, it just seems wrong to me

there's a reason why we don't clone humans. it's so much easier to play god with animals though right?
 
Sumo I believe your right about the cloning process. By questions of evolution like are Modern elephants hairless mammoths the evolved to live in hot climates and lost their hair as they adapted? Who knows it could even answer questions on human evolution and how we evolved from apes.


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I believe it's all in time. I think they want to learn to clone animals to get the science down packed. Didn't they clone goats and chickens when they found the first mammoth. And im guessing your right a wooly mammoth x elephant would be a hybrid


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from what I understand, they've cloned human embryos and there are different types of human cloning but the countries advanced enough are generally against it

I can see the use of human cloning for medical reasons like for people that need blood or organs and how difficult it can be to get compatible donors. so it's not entirely a bad thing. but still, the whole idea just gets my spider senses tingling, know what i'm saying?
 
Sumoninja is right, it wouldn't be the same thing with having to artificially inseminate elephant eggs. And what if they clone them, after the first few years demand gets high and a lot get made, they end up breeding and some of them make ot to other countries and someone releases them, give it 30 years and they may become a plague, destroying some eco systems. I would say it would just be a bad idea.
 
Elbling0 said:
Sumoninja is right, it wouldn't be the same thing with having to artificially inseminate elephant eggs. And what if they clone them, after the first few years demand gets high and a lot get made, they end up breeding and some of them make ot to other countries and someone releases them, give it 30 years and they may become a plague, destroying some eco systems. I would say it would just be a bad idea.
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and with my crazy imagination, I picture there would be complications and the mammoths would come out retarded or something

and one day there'd be a bunch of retarded, unstable wooly mammoth hybrids escaping into the wild breeding with wild elephants. just completely reeking havoc on nature's gene pool. then it'd just be a huge mess
 
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