• Question: Do you think that vampires could be created with science? and could dinosaurs come back with science too?

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      Asked by human101 to Megan, Mzamo, Ola, Olivia, Weiyi on 15 Nov 2016.
      • Photo: Megan Seymour

        Megan Seymour answered on 15 Nov 2016:

        Good question!
        If you’ve ever heard of Dolly the sheep you might know that it is very possible to clone animals.
        In order to make a clone though, you need some DNA. The fictional scientists in the Jurassic park films found some dinosaur DNA in a fossil. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), in real life this isn’t possible. DNA isn’t stable for more than about 500 years, so any dinosaur DNA that was fossilised wouldn’t still be in tact now.

        As for vampires, I don’t think so- humans would need some pretty serious genetic mutations to become vampire-like, and these couldn’t be passed on by biting.

      • Photo: Olivia Ashton

        Olivia Ashton answered on 15 Nov 2016:

        With science fiction, definitely. Not so sure about with just science.

        As Megan said, we need DNA to be able to clone things, or bring a new species back from extinction, and i don’t think anyone went around collecting dino DNA before they went extinct.

        And making a vampire might lead to a few ethical questions and barriers along the way!

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