On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:32 PM, John K Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonkc@bellsouth.net">jonkc@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Why would you need that, why would things have to be exact? Human genes have been expressed in yeast, and a yeast cell is not exactly the same as a human being. All life understands the language of DNA.<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote></div><br>Besides that, the real point of such an experiment is not to guarantee that the final product closely corresponds to a Platonic idea of mammuth, whatever it may be but that of seeing how (extinct) genetic stuff would express in whatever initial conditions we may be able to establish.<br>
<br>Are we doing anything different, e.g., in the case of transgenic plants or animals? By definition, they do not grow in a context they have ever evolved in. Nor do, by the way, any natural mutants...<br><br>Stefano Vaj<br>