Eli5 How is extinction reversed?

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Wouldn’t the limited genetics cause weaker offspring? AND is it truly the same species if it originated from the same two parents?

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Assuming you’re talking about animals, it hasn’t been truly accomplished, yet.

Essentially the idea for most candidate species is to clone them from a living cell we find in the preserved carcass of an animal.

Not sure what you mean “is it the same species”, if successful, the resulting animal would be a clone of a once living member of said species, grown in the womb of a closely related species.

I’ll note that two other approaches exist, back breeding and editing genomes, although these techniques are more dubious and would not produce an exact result.

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