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Jurassic Park:

1) Describe the evidence given in the movie that dinosaurs evolved from birds.

2) Outline the procedure for producing dino's as described in the movie.

3) In the movie they show a scientist with drawing blood from a mosquito with a needle. Would this work? Explain.

a) Suppose you were successful in determining that vertebrate blood could be isolated from the mosquitoes in amber. How could you prove that it was dinosaur blood?

b) If you identified that it was dino blood, how could you determine which kind of dino?

4) Only female dinos were made. They made the assumption that for all vertebrates female is the "default state" and that specific additional molecules were needed to produce males; these were not provided to the egg or the developing embryo. Discuss the problems with this theory.

5) A mutation was made in the gene coding for an enzyme. This mutation was in the biosynthetic pathway for one amino acid.

a) Which amino acid was it?

b) Would you expect dinosaurs with this mutation to die in the wild?

c) What if these dinos were conivorous?

6) Do you think dino red blood cells were nucleated? Why or why not? YOU MAY NEED TO LOOK UP INFO ON THE WEB TO JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER!!!

a) Why is this a relevant question?

7) Which DNA technology techniques from ch. 13 were described in the movie?