Would This Ever Be Possible - Create Using Dna

Is it possible to create a mermaid?

tiger b is right, anything is not possible, and we are certainly no where near to create a mermade, and quite possible never will be. Development is an extremely complex process, driven by cell signaling and different concentration of specific proteins that will turn on or off specific genes, in a very complex pattern that makes it hard to believe how this can possible work out right most of the time. If even one gene is mutated that can lead to disasters, and since a fish and a human would have completely different developmental processes, things would go wrong very early on (not even counting that like people have been pointing out, they would not be able to reproduce at all). And even if that somehow could be overcome, there are hundreds of other obstacles in the way. Like has been said, certain traits are mutually exclusive, and fish and human have many of those traits. They do not have the same type of blood system, and you certainly needs a working circulatory system to have a living being. This would go for all organ system. And not to talk about the immune system. There is hard enough to get a human body accept an organ from another human, so something from another species would be impossible. For this and hundreds of other reasons creating a mermade, or any cross between species, are simply not possible, and most likely never will be.

My opinion is that people tend to believe that this part of science is much more advance than it actually is. We can graft cells from one type of animals onto another (this is done in cancer research, where human tumor cell lines can be grafted onto mice for example), we can create mice with a human gene inserted into its genome, but only after several rounds of cross breedings if we want to control where the gene ends up (as in siblingxsibling). So not even genetically engineer a baby with a specific eyecolor is possible today. What can be done is screening for a specif gene or trait, and then chose to abort that baby if it did not have the wanted trait. If you should worry about any moral consequences of genetics it should be that. There are plenty of real issues to worry about, so lets just forget about the completely unrealistic ones.

Is it actaully possible to create a werewolf?

A parahuman or para-human is a human-animal hybrid or chimera. Scientists have done extensive research into the mixing of genes or cells from different species, e.g. adding human (and other animal) genes to bacteria and farm animals to mass-produce insulin and spider silk proteins, and introducing human cells into mouse embryos

Parahumans have been referred to as "human-animal hybrids" in a vernacular sense that also encompasses human-animal chimeras. The term parahuman is not used in scientific publications. The term is sometimes used to sensationalize research that involves mixing biological materials from humans and other species. It was used in a National Geographic article to describe an experiment in 2003, during which Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs.[1] According to Daily Mail, as of 2011, more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos were created in British laboratories since the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.[2]
Rationale

There are several reasons for which parahumans or chimeras might be created. The current forms of chimera exist for medical and industrial purposes, e.g., production of drugs and of organs suitable for organ transplantation. Other experiments aim to reveal knowledge about the function of the human body, e.g., by creating mice with a human-like immune system to study AIDS or with a brain incorporating human nerve cells. Restrictions on cloning and stem cell research have made chimera research an attractive alternative.

If a line of parahumans could be created using germline engineering, if they also bred true, and if they were different enough from ordinary humans to be unable to breed with us, then they would qualify as a species. Parahumans created using only somatic genetic engineering would have human children. Another key difference is that a germ-line parahuman would have to be modified before birth, while a somatic parahuman could be an adult human who chooses to be modified. Which one is more ethical is a matter of debate. An argument for the former is that no harm is done to a person born with modified genes because the person would have had no control over their genes in the first place. An argument for the latter being more ethical is that the changes would be made with informed consent.

Is it possible to restore dinosaur DNA and create actual dinosaurs?

I know a prof who was involved in some super-secret project to try to do just that - get dinosaur DNA. To the best of my knowledge (and mind you, this was several years back), they were never successful. (either that or they were too successful, and that's why we've not heard about it...)

But let's say you managed to get bits and peices of dino DNA, and put it together into functioning chromosomes, until you had what you were pretty certain was the entire genome of that dino. Then you'd have to find a way to get a host cell to think those chromosomes were its own (a step beyond cloning as we do it now). But wait ... mitochondrial DNA. So you'd have to get dino mtDNA, and do the same with mitochondria, something we don't yet know how to do. ..

... yeeeaah. So not going to happen.

Will it ever be possible for humans to grow wings and fly?

The way evolution works is a mutation is passed from offspring to offspring which eventually creates a special change. We have no flight DNA in our bodies, so development of wings would be completely impossible without the aid of laboratory fabrication and lab-created genetic mutations. Think, humans have no biologic need or reason for flight. And for that reason alone, we will never develop wings.