Dinochicken is coming!
Scientists are trying to pull off what some call reverse evolution as they attempt to take a chicken embryo and work backward to engineer a chickenasaurus. Sounds like a bad B-movie but it’s true. The reserachers cite the well positioned idea that birds are modern day dinosaurs and so, in theory, they are simply trying to make a dinosaur from a dinosaur. The idea is to bring back dinosaur characteristics like a tail, teeth, and forearms. Chickens were chosen because their genome has been mapped and chickens have been extensively studied. The goals of the project are to study the interelatedness of evolution, development, and genetics. Still, one wonders how much honey mustard sauce is needed for chickenasaurus fingers.
I fully support dino-chicken and the scientists who aren’t afraid to step out of the science cliche box. Our science teacher informed us of Dino-chicken and as students we created a petition in favor of DC. With success comes a price and technically we werent allowed to have a petition without consent so we had our science teacher take the petition and he is planning to photo-copy the petition into his computer and “see what he can do.” The thing is that i support this project because its not a “playing God role.” It’s merely looking at science in a direction none have ever seen. Creating a chicken with dinosaur adapations would be the future of science and prove to the world that scientists arent crazy and not everything they do is doomed to fail!!!
Congrats for the success,
Lara and a percent of Northern California
Posted March 24, 2009 at 12:00 am | Flag this comment
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