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Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by colordrops on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:08AM (#31881532)
Why 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.
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Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sdenton4 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:10AM (#31881815)
Why 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
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