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終了です！
今日１日乗り切れば３連休ですね。頑張っていきましょう！
先生 ： Mr.Larc
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記事 ： 「Researchers Find Tortoises Similar to Extinct Pinta Giant Tortoises」
陸に住む亀はtortoisesと言うのですね。。。知りませんでした。
絶滅しそうな種を、他の種のDNAを採取し、絶滅種を復活させる事ができるようです。
そこでこの質問です。
Do you think it is important to bring back the Pinta Giant tortoise species?
ん～難しいです、こんなに答えられない質問は久々でした。
In June 24, 2012, the death of a hundred-year-old giant tortoise named Lonesome George saddened the world. Scientists thought he was the last tortoise of his kind, but researchers recently learned giant tortoises like Lonesome George may still be living.
Lonesome George was discovered in 1971. He was believed to be the only living member of his species, the Pinta giant tortoise, found in the Pinta Island of the Galapagos in Ecuador. When Lonesome George died, it meant the extinction or death of his entire species.
However, new research suggests there are at least 17 tortoises in the Galapagos islands that share genetic qualities with Lonesome George. In other words, Lonesome George may not have been so lonesome after all.
Researchers from Yale university studied 1,600 DNA samples taken from tortoises living on Isabela Island, one of the islands in the Galapagos. These DNA samples were compared with Lonesome George’s DNA and DNA samples from Pinta tortoises in a museum.
Out of the 1,600 tortoise DNA samples, the researchers found nine females, three males, and five young tortoises that had genes similar to those of the Pinta giant tortoises. There may be even more hybrid or mixed species of Pinta island giant tortoises in other islands of the Galapagos, and even pure forms of the species on Pinta island itself.
The discovery means that it may be possible to bring back Lonesome George’s species using the tortoises’ DNA, something which Galapagos National Park biologists believed was not possible last June.
明日はゴルフの予定ですが、雨予報。なくなったらレッスン受けます♪
終了です！今日１日乗り切れば３連休ですね。頑張っていきましょう！
先生 ： Mr.Larc
ゆっくりと丁寧に話してくれる先生です。bookmark登録しちゃいます。
記事 ： 「Researchers Find Tortoises Similar to Extinct Pinta Giant Tortoises」
陸に住む亀はtortoisesと言うのですね。。。知りませんでした。
絶滅しそうな種を、他の種のDNAを採取し、絶滅種を復活させる事ができるようです。
そこでこの質問です。
Do you think it is important to bring back the Pinta Giant tortoise species?
ん～難しいです、こんなに答えられない質問は久々でした。
In June 24, 2012, the death of a hundred-year-old giant tortoise named Lonesome George saddened the world. Scientists thought he was the last tortoise of his kind, but researchers recently learned giant tortoises like Lonesome George may still be living.
Lonesome George was discovered in 1971. He was believed to be the only living member of his species, the Pinta giant tortoise, found in the Pinta Island of the Galapagos in Ecuador. When Lonesome George died, it meant the extinction or death of his entire species.
However, new research suggests there are at least 17 tortoises in the Galapagos islands that share genetic qualities with Lonesome George. In other words, Lonesome George may not have been so lonesome after all.
Researchers from Yale university studied 1,600 DNA samples taken from tortoises living on Isabela Island, one of the islands in the Galapagos. These DNA samples were compared with Lonesome George’s DNA and DNA samples from Pinta tortoises in a museum.
Out of the 1,600 tortoise DNA samples, the researchers found nine females, three males, and five young tortoises that had genes similar to those of the Pinta giant tortoises. There may be even more hybrid or mixed species of Pinta island giant tortoises in other islands of the Galapagos, and even pure forms of the species on Pinta island itself.
The discovery means that it may be possible to bring back Lonesome George’s species using the tortoises’ DNA, something which Galapagos National Park biologists believed was not possible last June.
明日はゴルフの予定ですが、雨予報。なくなったらレッスン受けます♪