Short Story: Tyrannosaurus Rex DNA

on what the lizard could be. She took an X-ray of the remaining section of the

Before the 1980s, courts relied on testimony and eyewitness accounts as a main source of evidence. Notoriously unreliable, these techniques have since faded away to the stunning reliability of DNA forensics. In 1984, British geneticist Alec Jeffreys of the University of Leicester discovered an interesting new marker in the human genome. Most DNA information is the same in every human, but the junk code between genes is unique to every person. Junk DNA used for investigative purposes can be found in blood, saliva, perspiration, sexual fluid, skin tissue, bone marrow, dental pulp, and hair follicles (Butler, 2011). By analyzing this junk code, Jeffreys found certain sequences of 10 to 100 base pairs repeated multiple times. These tandem

On a cold rainy night at Chicago O’Hare airport, there were four men who were traveling to a convention held in Rome, Italy. The topic for the convention was about culture and linguistic issues. Now, these men were childhood acquaintance that haven’t seen each other in their young teens. While each of them was mesmerized on their tablets they each took a seat at the nearest Starbucks café shop. Once the baristas called the men for their order, they were surprised and delighted to encounter each other at the counter. They sat down

I FEEL NAKED. EXPOSED. As if my skin, bone, muscle tissue, cells have all been peeled back, down to a tidy swirl of DNA. It's the basic stuff of life, the billions of nucleotides that keep me breathing, walking, craving, and just being. Eight hours ago, I gave a few cells, swabbed from inside my cheek, to a team of geneticists. They've spent the day extracting DNA and checking it for dozens of hidden diseases. Eventually, I will be tested for hundreds more. They include, as I will discover, a nucleic time bomb ticking

It was almost 4am and we had slept in the cold LAX airport on black and while marble floor. Very comfortable and accommodating. At this point a cardboard box on a heating grate in New York would be the Ritz Carlton. Jamie and I stared at each other coldly, hating each other, damp sweat and anxiety poured over us. Silence. We just want to get out of here. "This sucks." Was a common response to our deliriously back and forth conversation as we tried to keep our spirits up.

The Stegosaurus is said to be twenty-six to thirty feet long and about nine feet tall! the stegosaurs weighed six thousand-eight hundred pounds, can you believe that? but it had a very small brain, about the size of a nut. they are herbivores, meaning they only eat low plants and crops. they have seventeen bone plates that grew out of its back! some think that their plates helped them look bigger maybe to scare off the meat eaters or maybe just to show off. they also have spikes on their tail, the stegosaurus tail is four feet long as their tail is also very flexible and they can use to protect themselves from large predators or scare those carnivores. Its name also means covered lizard, they could not walk very fast and some paleontologists believe that if that if they had blood veales running through their plates that its plates could change color, pretty interesting right?

In a statement, Dr. Gilbert Price, a vertebrate palaeoecologist expresses his disbelief at having uncovered the find, “Our jaws dropped when we found a tiny fossil from a giant lizard during a two meter deep excavation of one of the Capricorn Caves, near Rockhampton. The bone, which scientists have classified as an “osteoderm,” 0.4-inch (1-centimeter)

The article that I chose for this assignment is about the recent discovery/confirmation of the first known dinosaur which lived and thrived in the water. The Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was found and collected by Dr. Nizar Ibrahim from the University of Chicago. Ibrahim along with his colleague Dr. Paul Sereno determined that based on the fossil discovered that the specimen was a swimming dinosaur. Technically, the bones of Spinosaurs were first discovered 100 years ago by a German paleontologist in Egypt. However, these bones were only a sample of the full skeleton and they were stored in a museum in Munich, Germany which was later bombed by the Allies during World War II; thus

After being given the task of creating an origami Tyrannous Rex with countless amounts of steps missing I can empathy’s with the chief geneticist in Jurassic Park frustration when trying to fill in the blank spaces. When I first read the Fourth Iteration and came across how Dr.Wu was trying to fill in the missing DNA I thought the task was going to be a piece of cake. I later learned that if the scientists had filled in the wrong even by the smallest amount the dinosaur can have an unpredictable outcome.

One of the best ways to help distinguish species from mutations is analysis of the teeth of the Homo floresiensis. There have been extensive comparisons with multiple teeth from this new find. The measurements included the crown size and contour from Homo floresiensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and 490 Homo sapiens. The comparisons of these groups and led to indicate that the Homo floresiensis had primitive canines and premolars, but advanced molars. This is a combination of dental traits that haven’t been seen in any other species, including ourselves and our direct ancestors (Fang). This is incredibly exciting evidence that helps prove that this is an entirely new species of

When finding the identity of the missing person from the DNA from the skeleton, the DNA was compared to the two individuals who were suspected to be the missing person. The DNA from the two individuals who were linked to the skeleton: Missing person #1 and Missing person #2 were then analyzed. The first part in finding the DNA was DNA digestion with restriction enzymes. That’s when 4 DNA samples, the DNA of person #1 and #2 that were treated with two different restriction enzymes, were taken and then incubated in a 45C water bath for 15 minutes. After that 5 microliters of 10X gel loading solution were added to the DNA samples to stop the reactions. The samples were then placed into a refrigerator overnight. The next day was designated for

She exposed the DNA sample to x-rays, usually overnight, and did this many times at many different angles to get a 3-dimensional image of the DNA. While working with different humidity’s she discovered that there were two forms of DNA the common “A” or “dry” form that she had been using and a longer, thinner, heavily hydrated "par crystalline" form, which she called the "B" or "wet" form. She discovered that the forms would change depending on the humidity. The B form produced sharp diffraction pictures.

There are different kinds of dinosaurs around the earth. Dinosaurs are in museums and in the ground, there are probably more about dinosaurs to be discovered. For my research I will be finding things and information about the Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex).

After 1 min the two DNA formed an animal he was 2.8 ft tall. he looked really cool he was a half cheetah half wolf.The front looked like a wolf and the back looked like a cheetah. he had super long feet and clauses,ears that can hear from a long distance ,eyes

My father raised me right and got me hooked onto the series of Godzilla. So naturally I had to have all of the toys that were associated with Godzilla. My other favorite toy to play with was my Nintendo 64. I remember getting this and immediately playing a game called Turok "Dinosaur Hunter.” The reason I bring up these two totally different toys is they both allowed me to let my imagination run wild and they brought me hours of entertainment.