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The resurrection quest

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How to Clone a Niberian Ibex

We are in the age of cloning since Celia and Stolly. What's the recipe what you need to get from Celia to Celia too? First of all what you need is a cell from the extinct species, so these are better taken whilst that species is still alive right, they're in better nick. Then you need an egg cell from a closely related species, so in this case a domestic goat. The embryo was implanted into the uterus of the domestic goat who then carried it to term and gave birth to it. How does a domestic goat feel about carrying a Niberian ibex inside it? I don't know if people ask the goat directly, but yeah it was

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