cloning the wooly mammoth

You don’t know this, but your life is empty and missing something important. You need a woolly mammoth in the living room, and on a leash to take shopping. There will be a range of sizes to choose from, mammoths to order from miniatures for condos to 17 ft tall behemoths that will live on your ranch. In November 2008, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reported they had sequenced a large fraction of the mammoth genome. The genome of any living species is the DNA genes which make up the chromosomes that reside in the nucleus of every cell and if we have that, then we might be able recreate the entire beast. We are on the road that leads to cloning a woolly mammoth.




The closest living relative to the extinct woolly mammoth that died out in most localities at the end of the last ice age, is the African elephant
. The DNA of these two species differ at approximately 400,000 sites in the genome. The University of Pennsylvania scientific team extracted DNA from the hair of a woolly mammoth mummy that had been found in Siberia. A new DNA decoding machine made this exciting success possible because it can work with genetic material from hair and DNA that is broken up and can only be isolated as fragments. Decoding the entire mammoth genome is only question of money, cost estimate is about $USD 2 million. At this early startup stage, your mammoth will be expensive, but where can you find anything like it?




Creating mammoth eggs using the severely damaged DNA from female mammoth mummies has failed in several attempts. There have been discussions about modifying the genome of an African elephant, a project that would cost $USD10 million and require changing each of the 400,000 genetic sites that differ between it and the woolly mammoth. A cell containing such a modified genome could be converted into an embryo by a process recently developed by a Japanese researcher, and then brought to term in the womb of a female African elephant. Outrageous as this may sound, there are new laboratory procedures that can modify 50,000 genes at a time. The result, if it works, will stretch the boundaries of possibility forever.

crazy world....

for a second i thought that said clothing the wooly mammoth....

lol same here

That's how I was born!!
Laboratories are cool beans.

You both fail at life.

Why else would I be on this forum?

Hmm, I submit to your logic. Well done, Mia.

Here's your winner cookie:

wheres my winner cookie?

You don't get one. You haven't done anything worth the cookie yet. Keep trying though, I'm fairly generous.

all mia said is hes on the forum! im on the forum!

Mia said that he was on the forum to counter(or justify) my statement of his failure at life. His counter was so infallible that it was impervious to even my infallible logic, thus he earned a winner cookie. You, on the other hand, have still done nothing to warrant a cookie.

so how about the mammoth?

They are still extinct right now, I think they suck for that. They should stay extinct if they can't come back from it themselves.

so your telling me you dont want one for christmas?

Psssh, no! Why would I want something that is going to leave turds bigger than I am laying around?

cause maybe they are dark matter and you can fuel a starship with it.

this isnt futurama!

fall4mui wrote:

cause maybe they are dark matter and you can fuel a starship with it.

Actually, dark matter is easily collectible in space, you just need to be able to locate it by its gravitational distortion.

hey, if i had a mammoth, i would ride it to school and eat the smokers

but then you'd be eating my bus driver!

he stands at the pit and smokes? then my mammoth would eat him

So you have a few million dollars laying around to buy a mammoth with? Or have you been saving up?