Mendel's Ark Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction /

• Main Author: Fletcher, Amy Lynn (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Nature.; Environment.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Nature conservation.; Social sciences.; Life Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Nature Conservation.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

Does extinction have to be forever?  As the global extinction crisis accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to save species.  Mendel's Ark con...