Will We Revive The Extinct In Our Lifetime?

Science usually make the impossible, possible, and I know cloning has crossed every person’s mind at one point or another.

Even to the extent of having a miniature T-Rex as a pet for others. So can movies of the likes of Jurassic Park really come true?

It breaks my heart to say, unfortunately, we will never see a fossil of a dinosaur come to life.

These are a few issues that make this realty out of reach by a fingertip length

1. DNA has a tendency to break its hydrogen bonds as it degrades

DNA has a half-life of approximately 521 years when left be. This means DNA will be 50% degraded come 521 years from now. The reason is when the cell dies, enzymes are released, especially nuclease whose job is to degrade DNA. This means DNA will last approximately 6.8 million years under the ideal conditions. Even with that time span, researchers state that after 1.5 million years the DNA would have degraded so much that the remaining would be unreadable.

2. We need a base structure

Even if we were able to find a perfect in-tact DNA of T-Rex, the issue would be what animal cells we would use to accompany the…