1.5 Genetic Mutations and Inheritance

From Gametes to Zygote

Jurassic Park-Mr. DNA

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American sci-fi hollywood movie. It was followed by 3 sequels and a fifth is scheduled for release in 2018. The plot centers around industrialist John Hammond and his bioengineering company, InGen,who have created a theme park called Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, a Costa Rican island, populated with cloned dinosaurs. Watch the segment from the film where at the park's visitor center, the scientists learn that the cloning was accomplished by extracting dinosaur DNA from mosquitoes that had been preserved in amber. DNA from frogs was used to fill in gaps in the dinosaur genomes. To prevent breeding, all the dinosaurs were made female.