Making a reskin of a gray wolf and calling it de-extinction is like putting on a Piramid Head skin in Fortnite and calling it Silent Hill 5.
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I wouldn't call a functional genomic equivalent a reskin.
But yeah I mean you're totally on point with the not equivalent to de-extinction part.
It's not equivalent though. It's a grey wolf made to look like a direwolf. If they'd crispered a grey wolf into a dire wolf, that would be one thing. This is not that. This is basically a designer breed at best.
Bro That's basically what they did
Please read the science article. First they fully sequenced the direwolf genome.
Then they specifically edited the genes for the Gre Wolf to exactly match the genome of the direwolf. The reason they didn't specifically insert cloned DNA ( CRISPR like you mentioned) is due to certain problems I'm not educated enough in molecular biology to better explain.
I am not just hand waving away why they didn't insert actual direwolf DNA or the cloned equivalent. I would assume it has to do with feasibility and perhaps avoids possible legal issues?.
Anyway the conversation we're having now is useless. There's only one test to see if a particular animal is a species or not. Can it interbreed and propagate?
For example a liger is a real animal but cannot create offspring. Same with a mule I think.
So I think they do have a female direwolf. They have introduced her to the parent but if they do and there's successful reproduction...
I just don't know what you mean by this is a designer breed...... Can you be more specific?
Yes, I would agree that the conversation were having is useless but you sure wrote a lot of words....
Life comes at you fast
Lol wut? You spent 3 days to think of that? Ok...
Bro I don't login to lemmy every day. It took 3 days to live my life and eventually I got around to responding to you..
Unfortunately ( for somebody I guess ) petty conversations with strangers online isn't much of a priority to me.
Nah, I just get a notification and I can do basic math on dates. It's really not that complicated.
Are you really so stupid you don't even remember where 3 days thing came from?
You mentioned it so I just repeated it. Really really great job with your basic math there bro
Edit: whatever your deal is man it really is true this conversation is too stupid to continue
Have a nice day, life etc.
Oh I don't even read what you're saying anymore and just respond with blatant trolling that you're too dense to notice.
The solution is obviously creating dire sloths
For what it's worth it is a cute little bastard
Til the word 'integument'