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		amelius on May 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 110M-year-old dinosaur discovered with skin and so... Yes, but you need fragments of only about 50 basepairs to assemble a genome (or a big part of it) back. A typical DNA strand has on the order of hundreds of millions of basepairs.

jessriedel on May 13, 2017 [–]

The point is that an entire genome (not just 50bp segments) is destroyed in 1 million years.

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