Could cloning be used to save a species from going extinct?
We were just watching a video about the Hawaiian nay-nay (goose) and how its
genetic diversity is so low that it can't adapt to its environment anymore.
They checked its DNA with some 200 year old nay-nays that had been preserved
at the Smithsonian Institute. Their DNA was more diverse than those of
today. One of my students asked why they couldn't take that DNA and clone it
and insert it into an egg of a modern nay-nay and see if new chicks could
hatch with the old DNA. Would this work? I don't know but it is an