Question: Would You be able to clone a mammoth

Annette Neill answered on 15 Nov 2016:

Hmmmm…. I have never done any cloning but in order to clone an animal, it must be intact and ideally, should be inside a cell, twisted up in a spiral correctly. The idea of bringing the mammoth back to life is a fascinating one! To do this, scientists will need intact/complete DNA and even though frozen mammoths have been discovered in Siberia, there has never been enough material to yield a cell that has all the DNA preserved in a stable form. You would also need to have mammoth eggs to clone the DNA and those eggs don’t exist… so Scientists have been considering using elephant eggs since the elephant descended from the mammoth. Watch this space….!