Thursday, November 20, 2008

In its mammoth DNA unraveled


Scientists have a large part of the DNA from a frozen mammoth prop can isolate her. They were about eighty percent of the genetic code of the mammoth reconstruction, and the breakthrough makes it possible perhaps in the future to the extinct species back to life to build, reports the journal Nature. Elephant The hair Saturday tens of thousands of years in the Siberian permafrost, and the DNA it shows that the mammoth much closer relationship with the modern elephant than expected. The species evolved six million years ago in different species, and share 99.4 percent of their genes. From the mammoths themselves were also two types. One died 45,000 years ago, the other 10,000 years ago went to the corner. New mammoth The researchers, the DNA of the mammoth in theory ever insertion in the genome of a modern elephant and a mammoth so again on the world.

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