Jurassic Park’s DNA plot hole gets a new explanation from the head of a biotechnology firm. Released in 1993 and based on the Michael Crichton book of the same name, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park follows visitors to an island park filled with resurrected dinosaurs when a power failure leads to the prehistoric beasts getting lose. While the film is acclaimed, it has previously been pointed out that the method used to resurrect the dinosaurs – extracting their DNA from a prehistoric mosquito encased in amber – is not scientifically accurate.
In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Ben Lamm, the co-founder of Colossal, a leading biotechnology company currently working to resurrect prehistoric woolly mammoths, offers more details regarding this DNA plot hole in Jurassic Park. Lamm confirms that the DNA extraction method used in the movie is indeed inaccurate. He also touches on how the movie gets Lysine wrong, revealing that Henry Wu’s use of this amino acid to prevent the dinosaurs from surviving if they escaped wouldn’t actually be effective. Check out Lamm’s comment below:
