Curse

You can't see me · Dec 14, 2007, 02:46 AM // 02:46

That is the most awesome thing ever.

Accursed · Dec 14, 2007, 04:20 AM // 04:20

holy.... me want that red one for teh Christmas holidays season

I pwnd U · Dec 14, 2007, 05:16 AM // 05:16

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Originally Posted by Onarik Amrak

You miss the point.

Pandas for example are endangered and have very low sex drive, which means they don't reproduce easily.

Then you have to factor in minimum viable population. If a population is too critically endangered, it becomes very unlikely they'll survive without intervention. Inbreeding is another problem...

Last of all, I think an important part of that research was identifying genetic diseases and working out how to cure them. Cloning endangered species is a side-effect of their main research.

Uh actually inbreeding is happening all over the world with animals. Cheetahs everywhere are virtually identical. Inbreeding in the wild is not all that common, nor is it a bad thing all the time. After a population bottleneck then inbreeding is very common to bring the species numbers back up. But it also causes the species to become almost indentical. In cheetahs you can preform a skin graft on a cheetah Africa and place it on a cheetah in captivity and the graft will be accepted because of a population bottleneck that forced inbreeding causing the genes to be almost idnetical in every single cheetah. Same thing happened with northern elephant seals.

Onarik Amrak · Dec 14, 2007, 12:36 PM // 12:36

Inbreeding of critically small of populations may end in disaster if a disease hits them.

If they are close to identical, an individual with resistance may not exist, and they'll be wiped out.

I pwnd U · Dec 14, 2007, 04:21 PM // 16:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Onarik Amrak

Inbreeding of critically small of populations may end in disaster if a disease hits them.

If they are close to identical, an individual with resistance may not exist, and they'll be wiped out.

Correct, thus the reason pandas and others are on the endangered species list. If a deadly mutation hits the population that is genetic then their will be nothing anyone can do as each animal will die of this mutation. Thus the extinction of dodo birdes etc. But inbreeding is also a way to rebuild the population.

IslandHermet · Dec 18, 2007, 06:58 PM // 18:58

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Originally Posted by ensoriki

>.< Curing disease ftl.
Human population is to high.
Let some people die plz.

I would have to agree with you on this one. If we cured everything that could hurt us it will only hurt us more. 7 billion and rising we only have so much land and so much of that land is needed to grow food/livestock.