Learning About De-Extinction - Weekly Blog #12

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Summary

This week in science, I learned about the research done on extinct species, and the attempts of bringing them back. I found a lot of things very interesting regarding the resurrection of extinct species.They  talked about how we morally feel obligated to bring these species that we did wrong to, but controversy has spurred among everyone about this topic. Bringing back these species would also take a lot of resources and time to make a reality. There are several engineers working in the field that have been making several developments in this field and that at the end, the benefits would most certainly out weigh the costs. This whole concept of bringing back these extinct special definitely has a lot of controversy, but also has a lot of thoughts coming from both sides of the argument. There are most definitely benefits and disadvantages to both sides of the argument, and just hearing people discuss the topic taught me a lot about different things that have to do with resurrecting extinct species. 

S&EP - Arguing From Evidence

I used evidence to defend my explanation. I answered Riccardo when he tried to claim that one of the articles from KQED learn Investigation was informational. I was able to disprove him by providing  quotes from the specifically explained key concepts in science that are being used today to bring back extinct animals. I was able to successfully rebuttal his claim, and explain using evidence from the text in response to the comment made on his source.

XCC - Stability and Change

This week in science, I was able to identify the stability and change that bringing back these extinct species would cause. The stability that could potentially be brought if Woolly Mammoths were to come back is to help reduce the amount of carbon being released into the air through melting. They were going to bring back the Woolly mammoth by splicing the DNA of the mammoth into the Asian Elephant. Through reading the articles, I learned that bringing back these mammoths would be at the cost of today's Asian elephant population. Through this, I identified change in the population of Asian elephants becoming Woolly Mammoths, could provide stability in the ecosystem, but could also change life in the tundra and the population of the elephants drastically.