Comment Crap... sorry an addendum... (Score 1) 348
Oh, BTW...
I was a bio geek long before I got into computers.... for the folks who wanna know; having X females and X males is kind of a moot point. If you can bring back one, you could bring back a whole slew of 'em. Now, it DOES matter if you're talking about a sustainable breeding population... that depends, BUT..
They could expand the gene pool by manipulating the DNA in vitro... to make a viable organism, you need half a set from one parent, half a set from another. If they got ahold of two live females, they could take an egg (with half the full chrom. # in each) insert the chrom. into the same egg to make a full complement, and a new baby girl wolf with two mothers could be born... cool huh? Father? Not even necessary. But the same goes for two males... they could pull out two sperm (as long as they were XX or XY) and have a pup from them. The key here is how many distinct individuals can they get to adulthood, the more, the better chances for survival.
I was a bio geek long before I got into computers.... for the folks who wanna know; having X females and X males is kind of a moot point. If you can bring back one, you could bring back a whole slew of 'em. Now, it DOES matter if you're talking about a sustainable breeding population... that depends, BUT..
They could expand the gene pool by manipulating the DNA in vitro... to make a viable organism, you need half a set from one parent, half a set from another. If they got ahold of two live females, they could take an egg (with half the full chrom. # in each) insert the chrom. into the same egg to make a full complement, and a new baby girl wolf with two mothers could be born... cool huh? Father? Not even necessary. But the same goes for two males... they could pull out two sperm (as long as they were XX or XY) and have a pup from them. The key here is how many distinct individuals can they get to adulthood, the more, the better chances for survival.
