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No. Preservation of the physical form and preservation of the underlying DNA are two different things. Even then, we cannot just combine DNA from random anima
by sandworm101 4y ago
No. Preservation of the physical form and preservation of the underlying DNA are two different things. Even then, we cannot just combine DNA from random animals spread apart by thousands of years and expect it all to just work. The number of failed embryos would be immense. Just look to the failure rate at the dog cloning services. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to handle hundreds of failed elephant pregnancies, spread across decades, that it would take to follow through with this idea.
- iancmceachern 4y agoWhat is the failure rate in dog cloning services?
- sandworm101 4y agoThe quoted number is 20% but that is success of each procedure, each of which might involve multiple embryos being implanted. Remember though that dog cloning is working with perfect and complete samples, not degraded DNA from a frozen bog body.
- SoftTalker 4y agoI've never heard of this. What is the market? Who wants a cloned dog?
- sandworm101 4y agoRich people who will pay 50k for a copy of thier dead dog rather than adopt one from a shelter. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60924936 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60924936
- cjbgkagh 4y agoA lot of behaviors are genetic, it’ll probably behave quite similar to the cloned dog.
- bravasaurus 4y agoYouTubers with famous pets are supposedly doing this. The mind boggles.
- npteljes 4y agoIn case someone wants to read more - a person who did this with their cat recently gave an AMA on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uupphp/i_cloned_my_late_cat_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uupphp/i_cloned_my_la...
- sethammons 4y agoSome service dogs are really unique. I watched a program last evening. A young lady has a condition where she can pass out without warning. This caused her to be house-ridden. She got a dog as a pet and it turns out her dog can sense an oncoming episode and she gets a 5 minute warning. She can now rejoin society. Until the dog dies. A clone and some socialized training with the first dog could enable her to continue being outside the house.
- sandworm101 4y agoGetting the original to actively train their clone replacement? That is some black mirror-level creepy.
- Firmwarrior 4y agohaha, I've been in that situation myself. The replacement was born a couple of years ago, and I'm being forced to change her poop-filled diapers, teach her how to talk..
- colordrops 4y agoWhy would you need to combine the DNA of random animals? Surely a well enough preserved specimen will have endless cells from which to sample DNA and piece together a full sequence.
- sdenton4 4y agoWhy because of all those holes in sequence, of course! Gotta add some frog DNA if you don't want any gaps. Mr. DNA explained it all very clearly back in 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUaFYzFFbBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUaFYzFFbBU