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Date Posted: 03:19:41 05/29/02 Wed
Author: Tweety
Subject: Hopes for DNA scientists



Australian Museum Director Professor Michael Archer
takes a close look at an 1866 Tasmanian Tiger embryo in
Sydney May 28, 2002 that scientists have used to
successfully replicate some of the animals genes using
DNA extracted from the specimen. Scientists say they hope
to clone a Tasmanian Tiger in 10 years if they are
successful in constructing large quantities of all the genes
of the extinct animal and sequencing sections of the
genome to create a genetic library of Tasmanian Tiger
DNA. The animal, also known as a thylacine, was a
dog-like carnivorous marsupial with stripes on its back
that lived on the Australian island state of Tasmania
before it was hunted down by farmers who blamed it for
killing sheep. The last known tiger died in 1936. (David
Gray/Reuters)


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