Why is cloning not being used to bring back to life recently extinct animal species if we have the technology and the possibility?
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1. You generally need an entire, intact, and not soup-like genome. Potentially an entire intact nucleus of an extinct species–which is a problem for anything very long dead. This is often the first step for cloning, and it usually banks on the thing you’re cloning still being around or only recently expired.
2. You then need a host to put that material into. Such as taking an host’s sex cell that you can remove the DNA/nucleus of completely, insert your extinct/to-clone DNA, then allow it to multiply and develop within the body of a non-extinct animal up to birth. You can probably guess this is not a fix-all.
3. If you do NOT do the 1st/2nd thing, you’re probably attempting to step backwards by finding what genetic drift happed to branch into living relatives, and changing those things selectively, pretty much walking backwards on the evolutionary tree in a sense–which is its own mess.
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