Word: clonings
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...Crichton's novel, eccentric zillionaire John Hammond funds a project to clone dinosaur DNA taken from bloodsucking insects that were trapped in ancient amber to "bring them back alive, so to speak." The experiment's success goads Hammond to exploit the made-from-concentrate behemoths for profit. He hatches the dinosaurs on a Central American island and builds a theme park around them. Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel...
...milked dollars from the cow's udder. Russians are irritated that so much Western help seemed to be promised and so little appears to have been delivered. And some are suspicious that foreigners are out to swindle them; they resist making their once powerful country look like a Western clone...
...Demong said that she is concerned that the character of the Square be preserved and that her firm actively seeks retailers who will bring diversity to the Square. "We have to make sure that we complement what's already here rather than try to clone...
...administration ever attains its goal, every house will be a characterless clone of every other, and diversity within houses will have been achieved at the price of diversity among houses...
...past, the tiny scraps of ancient DNA that can be found in mummified tissue would have been far too small to study. But a relatively new genetic- engineering method called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can clone enough copies for scientists to examine the DNA in detail. They can then compare ancient genes to modern ones. That gives researchers another perspective on how evolution has changed a given species, beyond what can be learned by the traditional method of studying changes in body structure...