From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 16:50:52 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury
It raises some interesting questions with respect to the assembly
of extinct genomes. Yes their genomes are fragmented. But if I
have enough copies of 20 base pair overlaps I can reconstruct them
as their OEM forms would be.
### This is why I do not think that resurrecting dinosaurs is truly
impossible. Even very badly degraded DNA, even with adducts and depurinated
bases, should be enough, if you dissect the T.Rex bone at single-atom
resolution.
Rafal
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