The Thylacine is a native Australian marsupial; who 's population began to dwindle away in the 1890 's. The last thylacine died in captivity in 1936 rendering this native creature extinct. Many integrated factors led to the demise of this species one of the more obvious factors is that the government put out a bounty between 1888 to 1909 allowing farmers and local people to kill Thylacines (Attard, 2013). This only came into effect as farmers and the government began to worry that these creatures were going to kill some of Australia’s livestock ‘sheep and chickens’. Therefore, to prevent this from happening the government decided to pay people for each Thylacine they could prove that they killed. This went on from years until in 1909 the government
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Though this project was quickly scrapped as director of the museum Frank Howarth and assistant director science and collections Dr Les Christidis found that the DNA was unusable(Skatssoon, 2005) because when an animal dies the enzymes in it begin to break down the animals cells therefore also the DNA inside those cells (Museum of Victoria , 2013). As the Thylacine became extinct at that point in time 69 years ago the museum found that the DNA was to corrupted to be used therefore they couldn’t even begin the first stage of cloning. If the DNA was salvageable to clone the thylacine scientist would first have to extract the animals DNA from its cell 's nucleus, then reassemble its DNA using the genome from its closest relative(believed to be the Tasmanian devil), remove the ovarian eggs of the relative species and replace their nuclei with the restored DNA from the Thylacine, join the nuclei with the eggs then shock them with electricity causing cell division, when the embryos have grown to about 200 cells in size they are to be placed into the womb of the relative for gestation and finally if nothing goes wrong from there the relative species gives birth to a Thylacine (Hub Pages, 2015). But even if everything did go as planned and the DNA was salvageable resurrecting the Thylacine wouldn’t work as even though the Tasmanian …show more content…
Such as the Thylacine wouldn’t be the same creature that is was in 1888 as animals learn their behaviour from other animals of their species and because there are no other thylacines who would this resurrected thylacine learn from? (Walters, 2013) Most likely it would learn from human interaction or its relative species the Tasmanian devil. Therefore, it would not be the same as the Thylacine and we could never make it so. In the wild ecosystems change constantly, weather that’s from extinction to migration or disease and yet ecosystems go on with its creatures only making slight changes to compensate for its loses. Loss isn 't a new concept to the worlds ecosystems and sometimes we need to let nature take its course. Mating and reproduction also places a big part in ecosystems and the animal kingdom, producing reproductive clones has not yet been fully grasped and as it plays such a vital part in the animal kingdom/ecosystem we don’t know how the thylacine would respond to that (National Human Genome Research Institue , 2015). Researchers have also found that cloned animals tend to have health defects such as increased birth size, defective livers, brains, hearts, premature aging and immune system problems. They also tend to die young and unexpectedly. Lastly if the
Though this project was quickly scrapped as director of the museum Frank Howarth and assistant director science and collections Dr Les Christidis found that the DNA was unusable(Skatssoon, 2005) because when an animal dies the enzymes in it begin to break down the animals cells therefore also the DNA inside those cells (Museum of Victoria , 2013). As the Thylacine became extinct at that point in time 69 years ago the museum found that the DNA was to corrupted to be used therefore they couldn’t even begin the first stage of cloning. If the DNA was salvageable to clone the thylacine scientist would first have to extract the animals DNA from its cell 's nucleus, then reassemble its DNA using the genome from its closest relative(believed to be the Tasmanian devil), remove the ovarian eggs of the relative species and replace their nuclei with the restored DNA from the Thylacine, join the nuclei with the eggs then shock them with electricity causing cell division, when the embryos have grown to about 200 cells in size they are to be placed into the womb of the relative for gestation and finally if nothing goes wrong from there the relative species gives birth to a Thylacine (Hub Pages, 2015). But even if everything did go as planned and the DNA was salvageable resurrecting the Thylacine wouldn’t work as even though the Tasmanian …show more content…
Such as the Thylacine wouldn’t be the same creature that is was in 1888 as animals learn their behaviour from other animals of their species and because there are no other thylacines who would this resurrected thylacine learn from? (Walters, 2013) Most likely it would learn from human interaction or its relative species the Tasmanian devil. Therefore, it would not be the same as the Thylacine and we could never make it so. In the wild ecosystems change constantly, weather that’s from extinction to migration or disease and yet ecosystems go on with its creatures only making slight changes to compensate for its loses. Loss isn 't a new concept to the worlds ecosystems and sometimes we need to let nature take its course. Mating and reproduction also places a big part in ecosystems and the animal kingdom, producing reproductive clones has not yet been fully grasped and as it plays such a vital part in the animal kingdom/ecosystem we don’t know how the thylacine would respond to that (National Human Genome Research Institue , 2015). Researchers have also found that cloned animals tend to have health defects such as increased birth size, defective livers, brains, hearts, premature aging and immune system problems. They also tend to die young and unexpectedly. Lastly if the