Re:110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
by amelius on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:26PM
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Yes, but you need fragments of only about 50 basepairs to assemble a genome (or a big part of it) back. A typical DNA strand has on the order of hundreds of millions of basepairs.
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Re:110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and soft tissue
by jessriedel on Friday May 12, 2017 @08:43PM
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The point is that an entire genome (not just 50bp segments) is destroyed in 1 million years.