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I'm guessing that shotgun sequencing techniques are used -- that is, you don't need full length segments in order to reconstruct significantly long lengths of D
by whistlerbrk 11y ago
I'm guessing that shotgun sequencing techniques are used -- that is, you don't need full length segments in order to reconstruct significantly long lengths of DNA. Again a guess.
- erroneousfunk 11y agoNo, they're not used, because they didn't find DNA -- they found rocks. We're dealing with fossils here, not organic matter. Tissue does not last for millions of years.
- sunwooz 11y agoWasn't a scientist able to extract DNA fragments from dinosaur bones by leaving them in an acidic solution?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoBakker notes that lots of what people call dinosaur fossils are in actuality just bone. Fossilization is rarely a complete or perfect process. So this may in fact be bone.